Sigmund Freud quotes Born: 05/06/1856 Died: 09/23/1939 Country: austria

• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. (Sigmund Freud) [needs]
• I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness. (Sigmund Freud) [system/property/system/property]
• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. (Sigmund Freud) [conscience/perception/wish]
• Anatomy is destiny. (Sigmund Freud) [anatomy]
• The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. (Sigmund Freud)
• Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. (Sigmund Freud) [process/service/human/unity]
• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. (Sigmund Freud) [look]
• We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology. (Sigmund Freud) [life/girls/life/women]
• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. (Sigmund Freud) [defenseless/suffering/love/love]
• One is very crazy when in love. (Sigmund Freud) [crazy/love]
• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. (Sigmund Freud) [creation]
• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud) [being/exercise]
• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father. (Sigmund Freud) [psychoanalysis/human/god/god]
• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. (Sigmund Freud) [love]
• 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)
• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. (Sigmund Freud) [men/measure/power/thing]
• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. (Sigmund Freud) [god/give]
• 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) [human/experience/matter/think]
• Where id was, there shall ego be. (Sigmund Freud) [ego]
• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force. (Sigmund Freud) [human/life/majority/power]
• 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. (Sigmund Freud) [normal/normal/ego]
• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion. (Sigmund Freud) [mind/analysis/analysis/life]
• We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. (Sigmund Freud) [nature/instinct]
• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. (Sigmund Freud) [men/more/think/more]
• A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. (Sigmund Freud) [neurosis/value]
• It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need. (Sigmund Freud) [nature/mankind/activity]
• 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) [willpower]
• 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) [pleasure/give]
• 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) [mind/sun]
• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. (Sigmund Freud) [mind/water]

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