Category Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud says: “I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that

Sigmund Freud says: “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

Sigmund Freud says: “Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.”

Sigmund Freud says: “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 man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need…

Sigmund Freud says: “Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will…

Sigmund Freud says: “A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once…

Sigmund Freud says:  “There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.”

Sigmund Freud says:  “Suffering comes from three quarters: from our own body, which is destined to decay and dissolution, and cannot even dispense with anxiety and pain as danger-signals; from the outer world, which can rage against us with the…

Sigmund Freud says:  “Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.”

Sigmund Freud says:  “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”