Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — 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
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — 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
We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — 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
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
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember… — 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
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment… — 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
