Sigmund Freud Quotes About Desire
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
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Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
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Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
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Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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