The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
SIGMUND FREUDNone believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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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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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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