Sigmund Freud quotes

“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .”

— 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

“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 voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”

— 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

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

— 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

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

— 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

“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

“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

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— 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

“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

“A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.”

— 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

“Anatomy is destiny.”

— 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

“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

“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

“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

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