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Human Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly…
- 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…
- Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and…
- In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
- Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against…
- By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
- The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness…
- After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
- No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,…
- What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
- 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…
- No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least…
- To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
- But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if…
- The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
- Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from…
- I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...
- It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no…
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they…
- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
- The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
- It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
- Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the…
- I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or…
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