Quotes

“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

“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