Sigmund Freud Quotes
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The 'synagogue of Satan' is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate.
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.
Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.
I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.
I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?