Sigmund Freud Quotes

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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

"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."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"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?'"

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

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

"If youth knew; if age could."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

"The goal of all life is death."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

"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."

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

"Anatomy is destiny."

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."

"One is very crazy when in love."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."