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 FREUDWhere id was, there ego shall be.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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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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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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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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