Civilization and Its Discontents (The Standard) | 
I threw this book away when I was in the madhouse. I don't know why, but it just seemed like the right things to do - I guess I did it because I realized that I was reading too many books or something, and it just seemed insane to read a man so closely involved in psychiatry. Nevertheless, I read it before - in my own language - and it seems to me a deep language-game, to use Wittgenstein's phrase, really capable of driving us beneath the waves.
"Man has become, so to speak, a god with artificial limbs."
In mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish--
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
