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.
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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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History is just new people making old mistakes.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.
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Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
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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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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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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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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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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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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
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