Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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 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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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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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 different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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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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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
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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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There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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The goal of all life is death...
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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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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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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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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
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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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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.