Sigmund Freud Quotes

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. W...

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected u...

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itsel...

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the ...

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of c...

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not t...

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the w...

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious...

It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the pur...

Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinc...

One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority...

Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much toward...

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to ...

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

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another...

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...

If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state...

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, an...

At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements...

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and...

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ...

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a poli...

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt...

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in...

The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishmen...

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to ...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance ...

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exception...

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of th...

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...

The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot...

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers...

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do no...

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal conce...

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhapp...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying em...

...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-esti...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhapp...

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they...

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally t...

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little...

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling o...

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they...

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

There is only one state- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as patholo...

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to...

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life m...

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ar...

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conquero...

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they...

The goal of all life is death.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't c...

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some a...

The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the fe...

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Every man is a poet at heart.

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love ...

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimat...

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would prob...

We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone wh...