Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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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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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
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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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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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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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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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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 more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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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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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.