Sigmund Freud Quotes
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What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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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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Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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The world is no nursery.
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
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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.
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
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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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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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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.