"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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