Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure. Sigmund Freud savages ego enemy Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. Sigmund Freud lioness complaining talking Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. Sigmund Freud teaching feet art Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis. Sigmund Freud plato believe book It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. Sigmund Freud obsessive-compulsive religious religion Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis. Sigmund Freud neurosis used A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. Sigmund Freud mind men insanity What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud time life book I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me. Sigmund Freud serious use firsts Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. Sigmund Freud magic today The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. Sigmund Freud form development humans Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation. Sigmund Freud family girl fall When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect. Sigmund Freud acceptance religious men Christmas is the alcoholidays Sigmund Freud America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless. Sigmund Freud nevertheless mistake america Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect. Sigmund Freud teaching religious views I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion Sigmund Freud dangerous enemy religion A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. Sigmund Freud hard ifs It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being. Sigmund Freud greatness done men Now it is nothing but torture. Sigmund Freud torture last-words
