Civilized society is perpetually menaced... | Sigmund Freud

Men

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

- Sigmund Freud

Other quotes by Sigmund Freud

Civilization

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

- Sigmund Freud

Impulses Content Dreams Being

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

- Sigmund Freud

Betrayal May Eyes

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

- Sigmund Freud

God Man

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

- Sigmund Freud

Love

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

- Sigmund Freud

Man World

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

- Sigmund Freud

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