There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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