Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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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 have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.
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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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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love...
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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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Christmas is the alcoholidays.
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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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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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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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Without love we fall ill.
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
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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 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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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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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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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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The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
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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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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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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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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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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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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.