Nature Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

— Sigmund Freud

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

— Sigmund Freud

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against…

— 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

“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As…

— Sigmund Freud

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against…

— Sigmund Freud

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from…

— 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

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters…

— Sigmund Freud

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning…

— Sigmund Freud

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to…

— Sigmund Freud

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty…

— Sigmund Freud

Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the…

— Sigmund Freud

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to…

— Sigmund Freud

It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and…

— Sigmund Freud

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital…

— Sigmund Freud

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego…

— Sigmund Freud

“If man must himself die, after first losing his most beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit…

— 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

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,…

— Sigmund Freud