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.
SIGMUND FREUDWhen one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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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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Without love we fall ill.
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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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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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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.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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