Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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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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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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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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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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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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The goal of all life is death...
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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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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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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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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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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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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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.