When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be […]
Sigmund Freud Quotes
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for […]
Anatomy is destiny.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unbeliever.
Impersonal forces and destinies cannot be approached… if everywhere in nature there are Beings around us of a kind that we know in our own society… we can apply the same methods against these violent supermen outside that we employ in our own society; we can try to adjure them, to appease them, to bribe […]
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
