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- A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
- Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against…
- No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,…
- Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
- There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with…
- If you can't do it, give up!
- It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two,…
- A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
- What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
- The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and…
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
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