It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
I have found little that is “good” about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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