It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters… — 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
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and… — 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
Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the… — 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
“If man must himself die, after first losing his most beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego… — 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
