Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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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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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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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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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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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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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
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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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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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We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
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Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
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Now it is nothing but torture.