65 Sigmund Freud Quotes That Will Make You Smarter
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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.
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.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea, they become powerless when they oppose it.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
The madman is a dreamer awake.
Where id is, there shall ego be.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
The ego is not master in its own house.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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.
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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.
What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man’s judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.
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.
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in 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 of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it. r suffix insertion here.
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