Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation. Sigmund Freud renunciationcivilization It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. Sigmund Freud teamworkanimalmen Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. Sigmund Freud omnipotencelong-agomen I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. Sigmund Freud something-newletterswriting This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Sigmund Freud sarcasticwittyfunny There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions. Sigmund Freud powerfulmindfeelings The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will. Sigmund Freud giving-uppainlife When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us. Sigmund Freud egogiving-uppersons The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud egoself-worthhouse In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites. Sigmund Freud sexualityhypocritematter The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. Sigmund Freud honordreammen Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée. Sigmund Freud princesskissinggirl It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Sigmund Freud argumenthuman-natureideas Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss. Sigmund Freud kissinghumorousfunny I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness. Sigmund Freud differencescriticismlove It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background. Sigmund Freud menrealitythinking The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. Sigmund Freud forcewishreality The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind. Sigmund Freud optimisticvoicedoe In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud importantchoicesdecision Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. Sigmund Freud elementstaskssuffering
