A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If man must himself die, after first losing his most beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I must confess that I am not at all partial to the fabrication of Weltanschauungen. Such activities may be left to philosophers,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
“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 momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share