You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
We must love or we grow ill.
Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
One is very crazy when in love.
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
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