Sigmund Freud quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. View quote
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Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar. View quote
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. View quote
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. View quote
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Anatomy is destiny. View quote
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. View quote
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The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside. View quote
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. View quote
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. View quote
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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. (Sigmund Freud)
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now. View quote
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A woman should soften but not weaken a man. View quote
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. View quote
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The goal of all life is death. View quote
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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?' View quote
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. View quote
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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. View quote
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. View quote
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. View quote
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud)
The ego is not master in its own house. View quote
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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