Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud anxiety birth firsts Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. Sigmund Freud development race humanity We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. Sigmund Freud microscopes instruments should A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work. Sigmund Freud childhood strong memories Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity Sigmund Freud neurosis universal humanity The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. Sigmund Freud soul matter dream Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable. Sigmund Freud jigsaw-puzzles honesty truth Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. Sigmund Freud psychics devil men Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know. Sigmund Freud rebuke knows feelings A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness. Sigmund Freud brother children fall Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder. Sigmund Freud can-not murder lust I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. Sigmund Freud study impossible teacher A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! Sigmund Freud collections collecting facts ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction. Sigmund Freud illusion religious facts Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee. Sigmund Freud god sea father We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level. Sigmund Freud levels intellectual children Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers. Sigmund Freud summer dream house The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies. Sigmund Freud devil would-be doe When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so. Sigmund Freud dark doe may Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. Sigmund Freud doctrine religious believe
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