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

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud

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

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

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.
Sigmund Freud

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

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

Where id was, there ego shall be.
Sigmund Freud

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

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud