Sigmund Freud Quotes about Humanity

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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Sigmund Freud

Humanity, Religion, Atheism

Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Sigmund Freud

Atheist, Humanity, Age

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

Sigmund Freud

Two, Humanity, Unity

Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

Sigmund Freud

Men, Issues, Humanity

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.

Sigmund Freud

Nature, Children, Humanity

Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Early psycho-analytic publications”