Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love |
At the bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father |
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise |
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. |
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. |
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. |
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. |
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another |
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us |
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man |
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man |
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. |
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. |
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. |
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. |