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“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
“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 by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
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“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
― New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
― New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?”
― Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome Letters
― Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome Letters
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