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Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“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?"”
Sigmund Freud
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Sigmund Freud
“One is very crazy when in love.”
Sigmund Freud
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
Sigmund Freud
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
Sigmund Freud
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Sigmund Freud
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
Sigmund Freud
“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
Sigmund Freud
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Sigmund Freud
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”
Sigmund Freud
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
Sigmund Freud
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Sigmund Freud
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
Sigmund Freud
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
Sigmund Freud
“I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
Sigmund Freud
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
Sigmund Freud
“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”
Sigmund Freud
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
Sigmund Freud
“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”
Sigmund Freud
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Sigmund Freud
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Sigmund Freud
“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Sigmund Freud
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Sigmund Freud
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Sigmund Freud
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Sigmund Freud
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
Sigmund Freud
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
Sigmund Freud
“Anatomy is destiny.”
Sigmund Freud
