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Person·Sigmund Freud✕clear

Religious literature · Historical literature

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Moses and Monotheism · 1939

★ 2.1

Psychological literature

Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1933

★ 3.8

Being totally honest with oneself is a good exercise.

1897

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Civilization and Its Discontents · 1930

★ 4.5

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

1898

★ 4.6

Psychological literature

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

1917

★ 5.3

Psychological literature

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1899

★ 5.5

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Totem and Taboo · 1913

★ 5.5

Psychological literature

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1933

★ 6.2

Lecture · Psychological literature

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1917

★ 6.3

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

1925

★ 7.1