Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

— Sigmund Freud

Truth

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

— Sigmund Freud

Education

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

— Sigmund Freud

Happiness

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

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

— Sigmund Freud

Freedom

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

— Sigmund Freud

Hope

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

— Sigmund Freud

Love

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

— Sigmund Freud

Success

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

— Sigmund Freud

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

— Sigmund Freud

Love

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

Life

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

— Sigmund Freud

Life

If you can't do it, give up!

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

— Sigmund Freud

Love

Where id was, there ego shall be.

— Sigmund Freud

Wisdom