Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The madman is a dreamer awake...
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I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
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In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
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Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
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Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
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When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
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Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.
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Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
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Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.
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Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.
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Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis...
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.