Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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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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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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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 different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
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There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves...
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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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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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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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.
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The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.