The ego is not master in its own house.
From Sigmund Freud
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Anatomy is destiny.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
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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