Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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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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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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A strong egoism is a protection.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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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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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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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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