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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
"I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
Aggressiveness was not created by property.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice—that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state — admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological — in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)