Quote

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
Powerful
Innate
Culture
Disposition
Power
Aggression
Back
Statement
Come
Tendency
Instinctual
Take
Tendencies
Constitutes
Men
Obstacles
Obstacle
Independent
Standpoint

More quotes by Sigmund Freud

Image
Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Sigmund Freud
Image
I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
Sigmund Freud
Image
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
Sigmund Freud
Image
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
Image
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
Sigmund Freud
Image
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
Sigmund Freud
Image
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
Sigmund Freud
Image
My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
Sigmund Freud
Image
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
Sigmund Freud
Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
Sigmund Freud
Image
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
Sigmund Freud
Image
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
Image
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud
Image
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
Sigmund Freud
Image
If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
Sigmund Freud
Image
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Image
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
Sigmund Freud
Image
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
Sigmund Freud
Image
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
Image
That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
Sigmund Freud