The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. |
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. |
The goal of all life is death. |
The goal of all life is death. |
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us / of becoming happy / is not attainable: yet we may not / nay, cannot / give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. |
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?'' |
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders |
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. |
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. |
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. |
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief |
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. |
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris. |
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father. |
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. |