To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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