Quote by Sigmund Freud
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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