Sigmund Freud Quotes
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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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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
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The ego is not master in its own house.
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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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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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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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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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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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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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It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too...
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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
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By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
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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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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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Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
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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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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
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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 view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
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The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.
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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.