“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
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. — 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
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. — 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
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — 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
“But hypnotism had been of immense help in the cathartic treatment, by widening the field of the patient's consciousness and putting within… — 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
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. — 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
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. — 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
We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image