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 FREUDIf you can’t do it, give up!
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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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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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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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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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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