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- The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to…
- I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the…
- But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
- In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches…
- I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege…
- The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The…
- Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
- These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can…
- 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.
- A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great…
- No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern…
- It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no…
- Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
- Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
- The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected…
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:…
- At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
- Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
- We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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