Life Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death

— Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

— Sigmund Freud

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

— Sigmund Freud

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

— Sigmund Freud

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

— Sigmund Freud

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

— Sigmund Freud

“Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”

— Sigmund Freud

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

— Sigmund Freud

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

— Sigmund Freud

“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”

— Sigmund Freud

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in…

— Sigmund Freud

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it…

— Sigmund Freud

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the…

— Sigmund Freud

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses…

— Sigmund Freud

“A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").”

— Sigmund Freud

“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of…

— Sigmund Freud

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking…

— Sigmund Freud

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed…

— Sigmund Freud

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may…

— Sigmund Freud

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It…

— Sigmund Freud

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which…

— Sigmund Freud

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental…

— Sigmund Freud

“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this…

— Sigmund Freud

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his…

— Sigmund Freud

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous…

— Sigmund Freud

As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration,…

— Sigmund Freud

“But hypnotism had been of immense help in the cathartic treatment, by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within…

— Sigmund Freud

“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and…

— Sigmund Freud

“Thus I must contradict you when you go on to argue that men are completely unable to do without the consolation of…

— Sigmund Freud

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A…

— Sigmund Freud

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.”

— Sigmund Freud

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

— Sigmund Freud

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud