Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
