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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud in The Future of an Illusion (1927)
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

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Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

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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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