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.
SIGMUND FREUDLoneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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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.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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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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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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