Sigmund Freud Quotes

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Sigmund Freud

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : May 6, 1856

If youth knew; if age could.

Sigmund Freud

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?'

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

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The ego is not master in its own house.

Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

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.

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

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

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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Sigmund Freud

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.

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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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