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Sigmund Freud Quotes


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

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

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

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.