Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses. Sigmund Freud suffering world needs The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own. Sigmund Freud purpose links doe In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. Sigmund Freud sexuality psychological found The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud collective-unconscious dream science The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. Sigmund Freud achievement complicated motivational In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. Sigmund Freud future distance past In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age? Sigmund Freud effort soul age The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. Sigmund Freud aviation able wish Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. Sigmund Freud investing pain reality We must love or we grow ill. Sigmund Freud grows ill He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Sigmund Freud faith doe believe Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect". Sigmund Freud civilization people fall The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis. Sigmund Freud resistance analysis ideas Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness. Sigmund Freud degradation illness vices Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud unbelief statistics belief public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. Sigmund Freud constructs psychological self Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers. Sigmund Freud guardian dream sleep The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. Sigmund Freud stage mind love Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. Sigmund Freud cruelty intolerance natural A woman should soften but not weaken a man. Sigmund Freud women should funny
