The Future of an Illusion (by Sigmund Freud) - the Kindle edition.
- "The one person this publication may injure is myself."
- "It is possible that cultural development lie ahead of us in which the satisfaction of yet other wishes, which are entirely permissible today, will appear just as unacceptable as cannibalism is today."
- "It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves prospect of a lasting experience."
- "scientific work is the only road which can lead us to a knowledge of reality outside ourselves. It is once again merely an illusion to expect anything from intuition and introspection; they can give us nothing but particulars about our own mental life, which are hard to interpret
- "Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brainworkers."
- "But surely infantilism is destined to be surmounted. Men cannot remain children for ever; they must in the end go out into the 'hostile life'. We may call this 'education to reality'."
- "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing."
- "in the long run nothing can withstand reason and experience"
- "No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
Kindle edition and
Paperback.
- "Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind."
- "he knew exactly what to do and how to spend his final year. He would live just the way he had lived the previous year - and the year before that and before that. (He loved being a therapist; he loved connecting to others and helping to bring something to life in them.)"
- "A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally."
