62 Brilliant Sigmund Freud Quotes (Founder of Psychoanalysis)
Sigmund Freud (born 6 May 1856, Freiberg in Mahren, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Pribor, Czech Republic) – died 23 September 1939, Hampstead, London, England) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He developed a set of therapeutic techniques centered on talk therapy that involved the utilization of strategies such as transference, dream interpretation, and free association. Sigmund Freud was one of the most influential psychologists and psychiatrists of all time.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure that you’re not surrounded by fools.It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.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.Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
Sigmund Freud
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.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 what we are because we have been what we have been.A woman should soften but not weaken a man.Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
Sigmund Freud
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Sigmund Freud
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.Love is a state of temporary psychosis.Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
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
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.If youth knew; if age could.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.The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now.Everything that you do in bed is perfectly and absolutely acceptable. If only both sides enjoyed it.All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.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.I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
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
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended; and that which is comprehended is not real.The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.
Sigmund Freud
When people criticise me, I know how to defend myself. But I’m powerless in the face of praise.Ideal, eternal love, purged of all hatred, exists only between the addict and his drug.The first indication of stupidity is a complete lack of shame.The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.At that moment when a person starts to seriously ponder the meaning and value of life, you can consider him a madman.History is just new people making old mistakes.The task of making people happy did not form part of the plan of Creation.Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
