“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
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one… — 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
“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — 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