The Best Sigmund Freud quotes

We must love or we grow ill. — Sigmund Freud

Love is a state of temporary psychosis. — Sigmund Freud

One is very crazy when in love. — Sigmund Freud

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder. — Sigmund Freud

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love. — Sigmund Freud

I suppose that romantic love was invented as a brilliant means of seduction. — Sigmund Freud

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

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. — Sigmund Freud

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

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. — Sigmund Freud

Not all men are worthy of love. — Sigmund Freud

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love. — Sigmund Freud

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. — Sigmund Freud

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

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick. — Sigmund Freud

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. — Sigmund Freud

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love. — Sigmund Freud

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. — Sigmund Freud

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love. — Sigmund Freud

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. — Sigmund Freud

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily. — Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death. — Sigmund Freud

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. — Sigmund Freud

When we share–that is poetry in the prose of life. — Sigmund Freud

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? — Sigmund Freud

A father’s death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man’s life. — Sigmund Freud

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. — Sigmund Freud

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — Sigmund Freud

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. — Sigmund Freud

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

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — Sigmund Freud

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — 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. — Sigmund Freud

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. — Sigmund Freud

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out–and–out unbeliever. — Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. — Sigmund Freud

Sexual morality–as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it–is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. — 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

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

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. — Sigmund Freud

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you. — Sigmund Freud

Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. — Sigmund Freud

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. — Sigmund Freud

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry — Sigmund Freud

Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is. — Sigmund Freud

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud

All that matters is love and work. — Sigmund Freud

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. — Sigmund Freud

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. — Sigmund Freud

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination. — Sigmund Freud

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else. — Sigmund Freud

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life… I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self–control. — Sigmund Freud

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought. — Sigmund Freud

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two–fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love. — Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. — Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners. — Sigmund Freud

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis. — Sigmund Freud

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door. — Sigmund Freud

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super–ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world. — Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. — Sigmund Freud

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects. — Sigmund Freud

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. — Sigmund Freud

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion. — Sigmund Freud

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic. — Sigmund Freud

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. — Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. — Sigmund Freud

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — Sigmund Freud

Religion originates in the child’s and young mankind’s fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass–delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such. — Sigmund Freud

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system. — Sigmund Freud

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish–world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites. — Sigmund Freud

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all. — Sigmund Freud

An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. — Sigmund Freud

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

The transformation of object–libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization–a kind of sublimation, therefore. — Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. — Sigmund Freud

The sexual life of adult women is a ‘dark continent’ for psychology. — Sigmund Freud

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating. — Sigmund Freud

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement. — Sigmund Freud

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

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex. — Sigmund Freud

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. — Sigmund Freud

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation. — Sigmund Freud

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. — Sigmund Freud

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was The founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain–workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . . — Sigmund Freud

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud

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. — Sigmund Freud

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. — Sigmund Freud

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. — Sigmund Freud

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. — Sigmund Freud

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. — Sigmund Freud

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half–tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. — Sigmund Freud

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age–old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash. — Sigmund Freud