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Individual Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define…
- ... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations…
- I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
- No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern…
- A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
- The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
- The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in…
- As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are…
- If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel…
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou