More from Sigmund Freud

  1. A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
  2. 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 g…
  3. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
  4. Great revolutions in science have a common denominator: They knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our conviction about o…
  5. 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 i…
  6. Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains …
  7. If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives th…
  8. I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicl…

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