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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

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This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems...more

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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

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Every man is a poet at heart.

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The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbia...more

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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

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There is only one state- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological- in which it does not do this. At the height...more

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I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideationa...more

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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

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In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from...more

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It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its lov...more

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...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that r...more

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we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us ...more

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He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as...more