Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDIn 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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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
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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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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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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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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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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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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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