All Sigmund Freud Quotes
- We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its… Defense
- Unexpected emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. Alive
- If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel… Acquisition
- Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us Conscience
- A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father Early
- The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders Children
- It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the night… Children
- Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty. God… Addition
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,… Activities
- We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies. Criminal
- And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that it… Acts
- And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself… All
- We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to… Accessible
- Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Exercise
- We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. Defenseless
- Anything that encourages the growth of emotional ties between men must operate against war. Emotion
- You are what you fight against Fight
- We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg onward. Chance
- Woman's basic fear is that she will lose love. Basic