Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUDMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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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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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
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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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Without love we fall ill.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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The goal of all life is death.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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