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Sigmund Freud Quotes | Quotes said by Sigmund Freud

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #1

    A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #2

    A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #3

    A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #4

    A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #5

    Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure, uncertain in its results, is given up, but only in order to gain in the new way an assured pleasure coming later. But the end psychic impression made by this substitution has been so powerful that it is mirrored in a special religious myth. The doctrine of reward in a future life for the—voluntary or enforced—renunciation of earthly lusts is nothing but a mythical projection of this revolution in the mind. In logical pursuit of this prototype, religions have been able to effect the absolute renunciation of pleasure in this life by means of the promise of compensation in a future life; they have not, however, achieved a conquest of the pleasure-principle this way. It is science which comes nearest to succeeding in this conquest; science, however, also offers intellectual pleasure during its work and promises practical gain at the end.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #6

    America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #7

    Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #8

    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 in solitude.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #9

    At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side:­ tradition, the concurrence of mankind, and all the consolation they yield? Yes, why not? Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. But do not deceive yourself into thinking that with such arguments you are following the path of correct reasoning. If ever there was a case of facile argument, this is one. Ignorance is ignorance; no right to believe anything is derived from it.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #10

    Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #11

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

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #12

    Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #13

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

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #14

    Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #15

    Everyone owes nature a death.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #16

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

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #17

    He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #18

    He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #19

    Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should behave in just the same way. The way in which the readiness to love, however great, is banished by bodily ailments, and suddenly replaced by complete indifference, is a theme which has been sufficiently exploited by comic writers.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #20

    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 may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #21

    I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #22

    I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #23

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

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #24

    I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #25

    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.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #28

    I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #29

    I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

  • Sigmund Freud Quote #30

    If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is glaringly obvious and has always been recognized. It is to be expected that the neglected classes will grudge the favoured ones their privileges and that they will do everything in their to power to rid themselves of their own surplus of privation. Where this is not possible a lasting measure of discontent will obtain within this culture, and this may lead to dangerous outbreaks. But if a culture has not got beyond the stage in which the satisfaction of one group of its members necessarily involves the suppression of another, perhaps the majority---and this is the case in all modern cultures,---it is intelligible that these suppressed classes should develop an intense hostility to the culture; a culture, whose existence they make possible by their labour, but in whose resources they have too small a share. In such conditions one must not expect to find an internalization of the cultural prohibitions among the suppressed classes; indeed they are not even prepared to acknowledge these prohibitions, intent, as they are, on the destruction of the culture itself and perhaps even of the assumptions on which it rests. These classes are so manifestly hostile to culture that on that account the more latent hostility of the better provided social strata has been overlooked. It need not be said that a culture which leaves unsatisfied and drives to rebelliousness so large a number of its members neither has a prospect of continued existence, nor deserves it.

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