“Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.” — 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
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone… — 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 we are to take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything dies for internal reasons – becomes inorganic… — 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
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and… — 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
“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its… — 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
“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I must confess that I am not at all partial to the fabrication of Weltanschauungen. Such activities may be left to philosophers,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it… — 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
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the… — 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
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“According to the prevailing view human sexual life consists essentially in an endeavor to bring one's own genitals into contact with those… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less… — 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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