Sigmund Freud Quote

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.


Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), in James Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1978), vol. 21


The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.