Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.
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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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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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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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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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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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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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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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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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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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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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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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Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Now it is nothing but torture.
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
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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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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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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.