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 FREUDThe creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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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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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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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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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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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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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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