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A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. - [Weapons] America is a mistake, a giant mistake. - [America] Anatomy is destiny. - [Anatomy] Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. - [Anxiety : Children] Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - [Honesty] Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. - [Devil] Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. - [Dogs] From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. - [Truth] How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - [Love] If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity. - [Religion] If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. - [Psychology] It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too. - [Homosexuality] It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. - [Psychology] 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. - [Happiness] Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. - [Belief] Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. - [Culture] Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. - [Past] Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - [Religion] Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. - [Religion] Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - [Tobacco] The goal of all life is death. - [Death] The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. - [Knowledge] What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - [Intelligence] The conceptions I have summarized here I first put forward only tentatively, but in the course of time they have won such a hold over me that I can no longer think in any other way. - Civilization and Its Discontents [Theories : Truth] Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. - Reflections on War and Death [Illusion]
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