Science Quotes by Sigmund Freud

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

— Sigmund Freud

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can…

— Sigmund Freud

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

— Sigmund Freud

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

— Sigmund Freud

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by…

— Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be…

— Sigmund Freud

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet…

— Sigmund Freud

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner;…

— Sigmund Freud

“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of…

— Sigmund Freud

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no…

— Sigmund Freud

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that…

— Sigmund Freud

“In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology.…

— 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

“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If…

— Sigmund Freud

“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules…

— Sigmund Freud

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone…

— 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

“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…

— Sigmund Freud

“scientific knowledge has taught [humans] much since the days of the Deluge, and it will increase their power still further. And, as…

— Sigmund Freud

“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved…

— 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