Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDUnexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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 meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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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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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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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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The goal of all life is death.
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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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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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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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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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