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 FREUDWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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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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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.
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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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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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There are no mistakes.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
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When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
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