Sigmund Freud Quotes

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

Children, Needs, Strive

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

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

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

Violence, State, Act

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

Belief, Forced, Unbelief

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.
Sigmund Freud

Great, Mind, May

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

Happiness, Sense, High

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

Religion, Strength, Fact

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.
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Person, Ego, Fact

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Society, Through

If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud

Age, Youth, Knew

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

Mind, Water, Above

The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud

Ego, House, Master

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Powerful, Culture, Obstacle

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud

Sometimes, Cigar

If you can't do it, give up!
Sigmund Freud

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.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Success, Mother

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

Find, Before, Poet

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

Ambiguity, Tolerate, Inability

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Sigmund Freud

Live, Belief, According

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

Human, Insult, Stone

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

Happiness, Alone, Wisdom

The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Death, Goal

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.
Sigmund Freud

Happy, May, Give

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud

Young, Away, Her

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 6, 1856

Died: September 23, 1939

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