Sigmund Freud Quotes
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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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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I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
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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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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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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
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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 psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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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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The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.
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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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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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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.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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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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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.