Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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That which we can't remember, we will repeat.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
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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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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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The goal of all life is death...
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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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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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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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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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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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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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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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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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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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Now it is nothing but torture.
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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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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.
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.