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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More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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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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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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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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A strong egoism is a protection.
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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The madman is a dreamer awake.
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The 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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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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