Psychology Quotes by Sigmund Freud

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

— Sigmund Freud

“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”

— Sigmund Freud

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

— Sigmund Freud

“He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.”

— Sigmund Freud

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

— Sigmund Freud

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

— Sigmund Freud

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

— Sigmund Freud

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

— Sigmund Freud

Unexpected emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

— Sigmund Freud

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

— Sigmund Freud

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

— Sigmund Freud

Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling.

— Sigmund Freud

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original…

— Sigmund Freud

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly…

— Sigmund Freud

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;…

— Sigmund Freud

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there…

— Sigmund Freud

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting…

— Sigmund Freud

It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and…

— Sigmund Freud

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses…

— Sigmund Freud

The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind…

— Sigmund Freud

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental…

— Sigmund Freud

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by…

— 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

And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed…

— Sigmund Freud

“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is…

— Sigmund Freud

The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from…

— 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

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific,…

— Sigmund Freud

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous…

— 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

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

— Sigmund Freud

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag…

— Sigmund Freud

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

— Sigmund Freud

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

— 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

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

— Sigmund Freud

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the…

— Sigmund Freud