Sigmund Freud, Civilization And Its Discontents Quotes
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....