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• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will…
• When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
• When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to…
• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
• An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to…
• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for…
• The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
• Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do…

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