"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
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"The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse."
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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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"After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination."
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"Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will."
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"The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain."
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"In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions."
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"Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair."
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
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"What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?"
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"In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable."
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"Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect"."
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"A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer."
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"Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor."
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"These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind."
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"A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."
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"Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion."
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"What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm."
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"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness."
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