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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Sigmund Freud

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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Against Defense Help Lost Love Object Suffering Unhappy
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Believe Convince Death Immoral Unconscious
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Beauty Civilization Culture Necessary
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
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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Behaviour Human Being Life Reaction Sex
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
We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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Choose Each Other Existence Meet Random Subconscious
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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Funny Human Being Love Open Person Refuse
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Intellectual Knowledge Manipulation Observation Verify
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Desire Love Relationship
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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Contrast Ego Passion Reason Represent Sanity
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
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Beautiful Inspirational Strike Struggle Year
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Finding Poet
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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Broken Heart Darkness Depression Loneliness Rob Value
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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According Belief Believe
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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Comparison Deep Inspirational Ourselves Past Person
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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Future Illusion Knowledge Science Suppose
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Ideas Men Oppose Power Represent Strong
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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Complex Conduct Direct Elimination Man World
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
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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Come Inspirational Strength Vulnerable
The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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Conscious Dreams Fate Lapse Reveal Strange
Where id was, there ego shall be.
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Ego One Liner
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Civilization Gift Individual Liberty
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
If you can’t do it, give up!
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Advice Give Up One Liner

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