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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
– Sigmund Freud

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  2. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud
  3. Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. – Sigmund Freud
  4. I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible. – Sigmund Freud
  5. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud
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  8. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. – Sigmund Freud
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  10. I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. – Sigmund Freud
  11. Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten? – Sigmund Freud
  12. It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. – Sigmund Freud
  13. When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has. – Sigmund Freud
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  15. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things. – Sigmund Freud
  16. He who knows how to wait need make no concessions. – Sigmund Freud
  17. Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny. – Sigmund Freud
  18. He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. – Sigmund Freud
  19. The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. – Sigmund Freud
  20. Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. – Sigmund Freud
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  22. Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says. – Sigmund Freud
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  24. public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. – Sigmund Freud
  25. Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. – Sigmund Freud
  26. Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud
  27. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. – Sigmund Freud
  28. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. – Sigmund Freud
  29. America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud
  30. I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures. – Sigmund Freud
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  32. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
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