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.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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There are no mistakes.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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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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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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