Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.


Sigmund Freud

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We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...
SIGMUND FREUD
The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...
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We should make it a rule not to seek to impose hypnotic treatment on any patient. A prejudice is wid...
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Anyone who sets about hypnotizing half sceptically, who may perhaps seem comical to himself in this ...
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The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishmen...
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We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance ...
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If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a las...
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended fr...
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by f...
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We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mir...
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I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ...
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People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love ...
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If you can't do it, give up!
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa...
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Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa...
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, ar...
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
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Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be...
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...
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The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b...
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t...
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The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ...
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O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;...
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...
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