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 FREUDMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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If youth knew; if age could.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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The goal of all life is death.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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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 woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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