| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 21738 |
| QUOTATION: | Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated answers. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: “Lieben und arbeiten” (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994), U.S. psychoanalyst. Childhood and Society, ch. 7 (1950). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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