"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
-Sigmund Freud
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.“
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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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"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
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"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
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