All Sigmund Freud Quotes
- It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… All
- No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. Cannot Give
- The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly… Achievement
- The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to… Call
- I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. Always Tell
- Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for… Aggression
- I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. Already Knows
- Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. Argument
- Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… Atheism
- The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… Admire
- I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the… Agnosticism
- The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… Accordingly
- Now it is nothing but torture. Inspirational
- Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. Ability
- The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. Advance
- Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and… Civilization
- The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… Abandonment
- We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal… Allow
- Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. Fame
- In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. Beings
- Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be… Able
- The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. Established
- The goal of all life is death All
- Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. Desire
- When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. Attempt