All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
SIGMUND FREUDWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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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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 behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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