Quotes

“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

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.” Sigmund Freud

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” Sigmund Freud

“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” Sigmund Freud

“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.” Sigmund Freud

“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.” Sigmund Freud

“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.” Sigmund Freud

“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.” Sigmund Freud

“Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.” Sigmund Freud

“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.” Sigmund Freud

“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.” Sigmund Freud

“Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.” Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” Dean Acheson