The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.Sigmund Freud
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth
Sigmund Freud
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
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