Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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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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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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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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