Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.

— Sigmund Freud

Where I'd was, there ego shall be.

— Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death

— Sigmund Freud

“Where id is, there shall ego be”

— Sigmund Freud

There are no mistakes

— Sigmund Freud

Anatomy is destiny.

— Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

— Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

— Sigmund Freud

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

— Sigmund Freud

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

— Sigmund Freud

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

— Sigmund Freud

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

— Sigmund Freud

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

— Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

“Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes…

— Sigmund Freud

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless…

— Sigmund Freud

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting…

— Sigmund Freud

It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and…

— Sigmund Freud

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them…

— Sigmund Freud

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,…

— 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

“It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but…

— Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed…

— Sigmund Freud

“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.…

— 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

What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression…

— Sigmund Freud

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over…

— Sigmund Freud

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to…

— Sigmund Freud

Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state…

— Sigmund Freud

A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and…

— Sigmund Freud