Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Quote by Sigmund Freud
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
- I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
- Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
- Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
- Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Best Quotes
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
- There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.