It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
SIGMUND FREUDThere 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.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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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 illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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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 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 intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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