Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".
Sigmund FreudAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist, Scientist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: May 6, 1856
- Died: September 23, 1939
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