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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Sigmund Freud

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Book Burn Content Past Progress
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Childhood Father Protection Strong Thinking
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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Discrimination Forfeit Injustice Love Men Object Value Worth
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Audience Decision Happiness Knowledge Magic Power Sorrow Student Teacher Words
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Discover Error Failure Motivational Truth
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Human Love Work
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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Confusion Illusion Question Reality Religion System
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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Broken Heart Darkness Depression Loneliness Rob Value
If youth knew; if age could.
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Age One Liner Youth
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Dreams External Liberty Matter Nature Pressure Soul Spirit
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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Bite Capable Dog Enemy Friendship Hate Love People Pure Quite
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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Alive Bury Die Emotion Express Happiness Pain People Ugly
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Abuse Defend Praise Science Self Respect
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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Against Argument Consideration Human Nature Ideas True
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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Convince Exception Fellow Heart Help Men Worth
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Desire Fact Illusion Instinct Religion Strength

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