All Sigmund Freud Quotes
- If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for… Assures
- Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against… All
- By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. Abolishing
- If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears. All
- The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness… Along
- One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… All
- The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. Discovered
- Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another… Anxiety
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… Analytic
- After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. Activity
- Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in… Action
- The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds.… Doe
- Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to… Admit
- Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. All
- No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,… Breast
- Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… Acquisition
- But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. Future
- What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. Characteristic
- We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold… Affair
- Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… Behavior
- The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes… Admire
- There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a… Activities
- As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… Ancient
- There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually… Beautiful
- No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape… Asleep