Sigmund Freud Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Animal

• The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Attitude, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Nature, Children, Humanity

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications”

• Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

  Sigmund Freud

  Humanity, Religion, Atheism

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Humanity, Age

• Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Race, Humanity, Development

• Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

  Sigmund Freud

  Humanity, Neurosis, Universal

• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Issues, Humanity

• So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Humanity, Unity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

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