"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle | Discipline | 5 bookmarks

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Freud, Sigmund | Repression | 2 bookmarks

"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."

Freud, Sigmund | Psychiatry | 1 bookmarks

"By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression."

Freud, Sigmund | Property | 2 bookmarks

"It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."

Freud, Sigmund | Procreation | 1 bookmarks

"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."

Freud, Sigmund | Babies | 4 bookmarks

"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."

Freud, Sigmund | Pleasure | 1 bookmarks

"The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will."

Freud, Sigmund | People, Other | 2 bookmarks

"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 greater or lesser extent."

Freud, Sigmund | Normality | 3 bookmarks

"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."

Freud, Sigmund | Neurosis | 2 bookmarks