Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy t...
SIGMUND FREUD The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
SIGMUND FREUD Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have...
SIGMUND FREUD It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instin...
SIGMUND FREUD Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
SIGMUND FREUD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting t...
SIGMUND FREUD If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feel...
SIGMUND FREUD What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of nee...
SIGMUND FREUD Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's e...
SIGMUND FREUD If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD If you can't do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUD Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
SIGMUND FREUD Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
SIGMUND FREUD Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUD We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
SIGMUND FREUD The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
SIGMUND FREUD Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
SIGMUND FREUD We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the co...
SIGMUND FREUD A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into r...
SIGMUND FREUD The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
SIGMUND FREUD Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...
SIGMUND FREUD Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
SIGMUND FREUD Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUD Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes,...
BELLA FREUD The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is...
SIGMUND FREUD We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
CLEMENT FREUD In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few excepti...
SIGMUND FREUD The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended fr...
SIGMUND FREUD How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
SIGMUND FREUD We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we...
SIGMUND FREUD Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...
SIGMUND FREUD Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...
SIGMUND FREUD One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUD Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
SIGMUND FREUD It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement �...
SIGMUND FREUD Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
SIGMUND FREUD Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...
SIGMUND FREUD Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
SIGMUND FREUD The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
SIGMUND FREUD The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: y...
SIGMUND FREUD The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,...
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are ...
SIGMUND FREUD The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris...
SIGMUND FREUD The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...
SIGMUND FREUD The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
SIGMUND FREUD America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
SIGMUND FREUD America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be...
SIGMUND FREUD One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of...
SIGMUND FREUD Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th...
SIGMUND FREUD Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
SIGMUND FREUD We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of thi...
SIGMUND FREUD Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why...
SIGMUND FREUD When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the ...
SIGMUND FREUD If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling,...
SIGMUND FREUD Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he i...
SIGMUND FREUD The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha...
SIGMUND FREUD I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
SIGMUND FREUD Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psy...
SIGMUND FREUD A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it a...
SIGMUND FREUD The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the laym...
SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any...
SIGMUND FREUD Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who ...
SIGMUND FREUD The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power...
SIGMUND FREUD I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who be...
SIGMUND FREUD Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
SIGMUND FREUD I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your who...
SIGMUND FREUD The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forc...
SIGMUND FREUD Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...
SIGMUND FREUD Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua...
SIGMUND FREUD What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with...
SIGMUND FREUD It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the ...
SIGMUND FREUD The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...
SIGMUND FREUD No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed che...
SIGMUND FREUD I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...
SIGMUND FREUD These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware t...
SIGMUND FREUD I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
SIGMUND FREUD Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the ...
SIGMUND FREUD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage
SIGMUND FREUD Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them,...
SIGMUND FREUD We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is un...
SIGMUND FREUD Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satis...
SIGMUND FREUD A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
SIGMUND FREUD Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
SIGMUND FREUD If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepar...
SIGMUND FREUD One is very crazy when in love.
SIGMUND FREUD We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay ...
SIGMUND FREUD Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually ele...
SIGMUND FREUD It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are...
SIGMUND FREUD The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUD I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
SIGMUND FREUD Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead....
SIGMUND FREUD It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legiti...
SIGMUND FREUD Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
SIGMUND FREUD We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of for...
SIGMUND FREUD The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the m...
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of...
SIGMUND FREUD The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
SIGMUND FREUD Time spent with cats is never wasted.
SIGMUND FREUD The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great ...
SIGMUND FREUD The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
SIGMUND FREUD Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
SIGMUND FREUD Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...
SIGMUND FREUD Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other...
SIGMUND FREUD We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
SIGMUND FREUD How can one know anything at all about people?
ANNA FREUD Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
ANNA FREUD Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
ANNA FREUD Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
ANNA FREUD A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
ANNA FREUD If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
ANNA FREUD Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice t...
ANNA FREUD Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...
SIGMUND FREUD Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUD Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it aw...
SIGMUND FREUD It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...
SIGMUND FREUD Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUD If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
LUCIAN FREUD The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
LUCIAN FREUD The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet...
SIGMUND FREUD He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...
SIGMUND FREUD A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace...
SIGMUND FREUD I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
LUCIAN FREUD A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
LUCIAN FREUD Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence ...
ANNA FREUD I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would prob...
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Anatomy is destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the gi...
ANNA FREUD Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
SIGMUND FREUD Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...
SIGMUND FREUD In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ide...
SIGMUND FREUD Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
SIGMUND FREUD My different personalities leave me in peace now.
ANNA FREUD Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
CLEMENT FREUD Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
SIGMUND FREUD The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psy...
SIGMUND FREUD Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
SIGMUND FREUD What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble me...
SIGMUND FREUD It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
SIGMUND FREUD The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of rel...
SIGMUND FREUD We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the p...
SIGMUND FREUD Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
SIGMUND FREUD The goal of all life is death.
SIGMUND FREUD Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of wate...
SIGMUND FREUD From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
SIGMUND FREUD I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
SIGMUND FREUD A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family ...
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority b...
SIGMUND FREUD Love and work...work and love, that's all there is.
SIGMUND FREUD What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the af...
ANNA FREUD I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lack...
LUCIAN FREUD Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us
SIGMUND FREUD We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
ANNA FREUD Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
SIGMUND FREUD There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast
SIGMUND FREUD Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it
SIGMUND FREUD The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
LUCIAN FREUD The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject m...
LUCIAN FREUD Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality
SIGMUND FREUD We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
SIGMUND FREUD I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member
SIGMUND FREUD People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life
SIGMUND FREUD Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some a...
SIGMUND FREUD The madman is a dreamer awake
SIGMUND FREUD Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise
SIGMUND FREUD No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human bea...
SIGMUND FREUD One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan...
SIGMUND FREUD The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...
SIGMUND FREUD Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, ...
BELLA FREUD As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...
SIGMUND FREUD The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
SIGMUND FREUD I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...
SIGMUND FREUD We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...
SIGMUND FREUD The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...
SIGMUND FREUD