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Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud
“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.”
Sigmund Freud
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
Sigmund Freud
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Sigmund Freud
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
Sigmund Freud
“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
Sigmund Freud
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .”
Sigmund Freud
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Sigmund Freud
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”
Sigmund Freud
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Sigmund Freud
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Sigmund Freud
“If you can't do it, give up!”
Sigmund Freud
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
Sigmund Freud
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
Sigmund Freud
“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
Sigmund Freud
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
Sigmund Freud
“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”
Sigmund Freud
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud
“The goal of all life is death.”
Sigmund Freud
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
Sigmund Freud
“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.”
Sigmund Freud
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
Sigmund Freud
“Where id was, there ego shall be.”
Sigmund Freud
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Sigmund Freud
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
Sigmund Freud
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”
Sigmund Freud
“The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”
Sigmund Freud
“Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?”
Sigmund Freud
