Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patients ego freedom to decide one way or another. – Sigmund Freud
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
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of ones dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. – Sigmund Freud
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. – Sigmund Freud
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. – Sigmund Freud
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. – Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. – Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. – Sigmund Freud
One is very crazy when in love. – Sigmund Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. – Sigmund Freud
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. – Sigmund Freud
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. – Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. – Sigmund Freud
