“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
Author
Sigmund Freud
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“One is very crazy when in love.”
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”