The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUDThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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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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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its 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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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