When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
SIGMUND FREUDThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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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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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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