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- The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary…
- In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings…
- The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to…
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
- What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
- We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold…
- Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would…
- No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape…
- Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness…
- It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is…
- In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put…
- I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
- The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of…
- A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there…
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
- A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
- ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that…
- In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches…
- Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy…
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