Happiness Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

— Sigmund Freud

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

— Sigmund Freud

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend…

— Sigmund Freud

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full…

— Sigmund Freud

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

— Sigmund Freud

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to…

— Sigmund Freud

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have…

— Sigmund Freud

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' .…

— Sigmund Freud

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not -…

— Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to…

— Sigmund Freud

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes…

— Sigmund Freud

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us…

— Sigmund Freud

“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which…

— Sigmund Freud

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness…

— Sigmund Freud

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering…

— Sigmund Freud

“The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness…

— Sigmund Freud

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to…

— 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

“dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes. Nor will it seem a matter of chance…

— 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

“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and…

— Sigmund Freud

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not…

— Sigmund Freud

“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by…

— Sigmund Freud