It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
SIGMUND FREUDReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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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.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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