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 FREUDDogs 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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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..
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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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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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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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