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Nature Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that…
- 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…
- We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of…
- In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and…
- When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such…
- It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
- The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle