Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
SIGMUND FREUDThe ego is not master in its own house.
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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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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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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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
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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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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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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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In 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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