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Man Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions…
- A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
- I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
- 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…
- Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another…
- 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…
- But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
- "He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
- The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one…
- Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or…
- ... 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 am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but…
- A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great…
- 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…
- 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…
- A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
- It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
- A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
- A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the…
- The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
- If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual…
- Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those…
- We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in…
- The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle