« All Only Quotes · Sigmund Freud's Page
Only Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only…
- One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
- 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…
- 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 never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
- Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and…
- It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in…
- One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are…
- We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
- 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…
- Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
- Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
- Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
- It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the night…
More Only Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle