One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — 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 idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from… — 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… — 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
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