Sigmund Freud Quotes
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.
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Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too...
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
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By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
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Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
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A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.
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The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.