Sigmund Freud Quotes About Age
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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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If youth knew; if age could.
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In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.
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A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
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Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
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