Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. Sigmund Freud misuse enmity made By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression. Sigmund Freud aggression humans love Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world. Sigmund Freud psychosis ego world Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person. Sigmund Freud voice persons writing If youth knew; if age could. Sigmund Freud youth age inspirational The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action. Sigmund Freud break-through effort real "He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy" Sigmund Freud easy men life The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. Sigmund Freud safety dream brain Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. Sigmund Freud not-interested history past The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them. Sigmund Freud definitions views facts The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. Sigmund Freud guilt loss civilization In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. Sigmund Freud individual development love It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one. Sigmund Freud religious mistake believe The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. Sigmund Freud contradiction influence dream One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. Sigmund Freud imperfection civilization mean Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life. Sigmund Freud self people ideas Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion. Sigmund Freud errors religious world In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. Sigmund Freud atheist running long Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. Sigmund Freud deprivation longing self You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick. Sigmund Freud numbers long people
