"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
-Sigmund Freud
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.“
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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