There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
SIGMUND FREUDThe ego is not master in its own house.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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Without love we fall ill.
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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.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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