It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund FreudYou wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Sigmund FreudReligion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.
Sigmund FreudCivilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund FreudTags: war death civilisation
Where id is, there shall ego be
Sigmund FreudEverywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund FreudTags: freud valentinettti
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.
Sigmund FreudTags: science biology ethical psychology evolution control neurosis ignorant consolations wishful-thinking
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund FreudWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund FreudIn the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Sigmund FreudTags: humanity cynicism mankind
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