Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.


Sigmund Freud

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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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.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...
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