Sigmund Freud Quotes

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

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

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"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."

"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart."

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

"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."

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

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

"The goal of all life is death."

"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct."

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

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead."

"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."

"Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."

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

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"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?'"

"Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization."

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."