Sigmund Freud Quotes

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

Great, Woman, Soul

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud

Good, Honest, Exercise

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

Parenting, Strong, Father

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud

Pet, Time, Cats

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

Freedom, Frightened, Involves

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud

Love, Work, Humanness

One is very crazy when in love.
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

Betrayal, May, Him

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.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

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

Love, Suffering, Against

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Crazy, Often

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

Dreams, Knowledge, Mind

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud

Success, America, Afraid

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

Intelligence, Between, Child

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud

America, Mistake, Giant

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.
Sigmund Freud

Nor, Number, Existence

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

Time, Rock, Angry

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

Life, Mother, Feeling

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

Love, Humble, Speak

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

Strive, Conduct, Eliminate

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

Good, Experience, Human

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

Emotions, Flowers, Nor

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

Value, Drive, Degree

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Moral, Far

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

Intelligence, Until, Rest

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 6, 1856

Died: September 23, 1939

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