“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
More from Sigmund Freud on Philosophy
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”
“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.”
“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....”
“Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.”
“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”
“Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.”
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”