The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUDMen are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
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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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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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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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