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"The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling."
Sigmund Freud
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
Sigmund Freud
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Sigmund Freud
"The madman is a dreamer awake."
Sigmund Freud
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
Sigmund Freud
"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole."
Sigmund Freud
"The goal of all life is death."
Sigmund Freud
"A stream cannot rise larger than its source."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny."
Paulo Coelho
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
Paulo Coelho
"Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself."
Elon Musk
"Should prob articulate philosophy underlying my actions. It's pretty simple & mostly influenced by Douglas Adams & Isaac Asimov."
Elon Musk
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
Woody Allen
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
Woody Allen
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
Woody Allen
"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"
Woody Allen
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
Laozi
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."
Laozi
"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
Laozi
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
William Shakespeare