Sigmund Freud Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
Religious doctrines ... are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct ...
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.
The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.