The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Anatomy is destiny.
‘Gesammelte Schriften’ (1924) vol. 5, p. 210
Vergleiche entscheiden nichts, das ist wahr, aber sie können machen, dass man sich heimischer
fühlt.
Analogies decide nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at home.
‘Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse’ (New Introductory Lectures on
Psychoanalysis, 1933) ch. 31
Wir sind so eingerichtet, dass wir nur den Kontrast intensiv geniessen können, den Zustand nur
sehr wenig.
We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast, and only very little
from a state of things.
‘Das Unbehagen in der Kultur’ (Civilization and its Discontents, 1930) ch. 2
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer,
despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’
Letter to Marie Bonaparte, in Ernest Jones ‘Sigmund Freud: Life and Work’ (1955) vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 16
6.86 Betty Friedan 1921—
The problem that has no name—which is simply the fact that American women are kept from
growing to their full human capacities.
‘The Feminine Mystique’ (1963) ch. 14
6.87 Max Frisch 1911—
Technik...Kniff, die Welt so einzurichten, dass wir sie nicht erleben müssen.
Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.
‘Homo Faber’ (1957) pt. 2
6.88 Charles Frohman 1860-1915
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Last words before drowning in the ‘Lusitania’, 7 May 1915, in I. F. Marcosson and D. Frohman ‘Charles
Frohman’ (1916) ch. 19.
6.89 Erich Fromm 1900-80
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most
important product of his effort is his own personality.
‘Man for Himself’ (1947) ch. 4
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the
problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth
century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The
danger of the future is that men may become robots.
‘The Sane Society’ (1955) ch. 9