Freud Quotes

136 quotes by 118 authors

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think… — Erich Segal
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms… — Sri Aurobindo
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific… — Thomas Merton
I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov… — Daniel Keyes
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not… — Steven Pinker
Freud is finished, Einstein's next. — Don DeLillo
He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artistâ€™s success depends as much as anything… — Philip Roth
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing. — Gilles Deleuze
Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that weâ€™ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.â€ â€œHeâ€™s not dead; just very tired. — Libba Bray
Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really… — Pete Wentz
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface… — Joseph Campbell
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it a philosophical thing.… — Rajneesh
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology… — Tony Benn
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one… — Stephen Jay Gould
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But… — Arnaud Desplechin
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It… — Eric Kandel

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