Sigmund Freud Quotes
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
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Now it is nothing but torture.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother.
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
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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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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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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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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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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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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
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It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.
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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.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
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A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.