If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience? Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love. Sigmund Freud desire love How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. Sigmund Freud love relationship life There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal. Sigmund Freud play giving children Without love we fall ill. Sigmund Freud without-love ill fall Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other. Sigmund Freud anxiety pain men From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud educational truth mistake Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud education inspiring teacher Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken. Sigmund Freud crystals structure broken The madman is a dreamer awake Sigmund Freud awake dreamer madmen In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure. Sigmund Freud principles taken believe When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has. Sigmund Freud doe want Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud change humble love When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. Sigmund Freud education positive inspirational Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. Sigmund Freud depth soul fall One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. Sigmund Freud pleasure uncertain giving-up All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love. Sigmund Freud asking giving Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question." Sigmund Freud confusion reality religion It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. Sigmund Freud use success people In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. Sigmund Freud depth heart men Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. Sigmund Freud morality men thinking
