Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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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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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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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
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Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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The world is no nursery.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
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Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
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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.