Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
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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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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love...
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Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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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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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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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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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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Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Christmas is the alcoholidays.
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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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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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One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
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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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Without love we fall ill.
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"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
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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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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.