Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — 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
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
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
