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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

~Sigmund Freud

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 6th, 1856

Died: September 23rd, 1939

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