Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
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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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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.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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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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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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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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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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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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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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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 goal of all life is death...
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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.