Sigmund Freud Quotes
-
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
-
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
-
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
-
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
-
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.
-
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
-
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.
-
Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
-
But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
-
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
-
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
-
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
-
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
-
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
-
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
-
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
-
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.