Sigmund Freud

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to…

— Sigmund Freud

We must love or we grow ill.

— Sigmund Freud

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

— Sigmund Freud

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

There are no mistakes

— Sigmund Freud

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

— 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

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are…

— Sigmund Freud

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part…

— 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

“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which…

— Sigmund Freud

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

— Sigmund Freud

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

— Sigmund Freud

“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”

— Sigmund Freud

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or…

— 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

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not…

— Sigmund Freud

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that…

— Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not…

— Sigmund Freud

“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may…

— Sigmund Freud

“Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will…

— Sigmund Freud

The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.…

— Sigmund Freud