All Sigmund Freud Quotes
- Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when… Accept
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Activities
- Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Crazy
- The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Aggression
- A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. Act
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Cigar
- The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Civilization
- Where id was, there ego shall be. Ego
- Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Been
- Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Become Powerless
- Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. Analysis
- Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? All
- He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. According
- What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Age
- If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual… Actual
- The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Act
- We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. Been
- The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which… Compared
- Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. All
- Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. Analogies
- The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Any
- The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. Ambition
- Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. Appears
- Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. America
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. Inspirational