Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.
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Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
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I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.
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The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
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A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.
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Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.
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If youth knew; if age could.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
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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 they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.