Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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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.
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In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
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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 have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.
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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Christmas is the alcoholidays.
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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Without love we fall ill.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.
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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love...