Sigmund Freud

A strong egoism is a protection.

— Sigmund Freud

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

You are what you fight against

— Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could.

— Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

— Sigmund Freud

All that matters is love and work.

— Sigmund Freud

One is very crazy when in love.

— Sigmund Freud

Not all men are worthy of love.

— Sigmund Freud

“If one of us should die, then I shall move to Paris.”

— Sigmund Freud

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

— Sigmund Freud

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

— Sigmund Freud

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

— Sigmund Freud

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The ego is not master in its own house.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual…

— Sigmund Freud

“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

— Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one…

— Sigmund Freud

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of…

— Sigmund Freud

“The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of…

— Sigmund Freud

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not…

— 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

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied…

— 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

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

— 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

“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is…

— Sigmund Freud

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them…

— Sigmund Freud

“Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the asocial instincts. But not…

— Sigmund Freud

Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in…

— Sigmund Freud

“Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the…

— Sigmund Freud

“I do not in general have the impression that sexual abstinence helps produce energetic, independent men of action or original thinkers, bold…

— Sigmund Freud

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides…

— Sigmund Freud