"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
Sigmund FreudRead
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
Interpretation
A static collection lacks vitality and relevance.
Freud's quote emphasizes the importance of growth and change in any collection or idea. It suggests that if something cannot evolve by accepting new information or experiences, it loses its life and significance, highlighting the dynamic nature of knowledge and understanding.
In practice
During a lecture about the importance of innovation, this quote can illustrate why adaptability is crucial.
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
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