I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. – Sigmund Freud
It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. – Sigmund Freud
Where id was, there shall ego be. – 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 away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. – Sigmund Freud
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
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador – Sigmund Freud
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. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. – Sigmund Freud
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesnt eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. – Sigmund Freud
If a man has been his mothers undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. – Sigmund Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. – Sigmund Freud
Love and work… work and love, thats all there is. – Sigmund Freud
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
