Quotes by Sigmund Freud

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.”

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings ...”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the hu...”

“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”

“The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have ad...”

“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve i...”

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”

“My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”

“The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough ...”

“...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the ...”

“Religious doctrines are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data...”

“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”