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When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. (Sigmund Freud)
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. View quote
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The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. View quote
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It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: "With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe." View quote
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The mind is an iceberg it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk above water. View quote
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. View quote
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake. View quote
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis. View quote
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Religious doctrines ... are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. View quote
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. View quote
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question." (Sigmund Freud)
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. View quote
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. View quote
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. View quote
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. View quote
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. View quote
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. View quote
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. View quote
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I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. View quote
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Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. View quote
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. (Sigmund Freud)
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. View quote
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The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. View quote
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. View quote
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Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. View quote
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