The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. — 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
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
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
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
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the… — 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
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — 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
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — 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
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — 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