Individual Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— 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

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

— Sigmund Freud

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to…

— Sigmund Freud

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions…

— Sigmund Freud

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense…

— Sigmund Freud

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Sigmund Freud

... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the…

— Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is…

— Sigmund Freud

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best…

— Sigmund Freud

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual…

— 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

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as…

— 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

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