Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. He is generally recognized as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century. Inspirational Sigmund Freud quotes will help you think outside the box and push you to build a stronger character.
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Most Famous Sigmund Freud Quotes
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud
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.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmund Freud
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, make sure that you’re not surrounded by fools.
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
The task of making people happy did not form part of the plan of Creation.
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. Sigmund Freud
Everything that you do in bed is perfectly and absolutely acceptable. If only both sides enjoyed it.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. Sigmund Freud, Civilization And Its Discontents
A complete absence of sex is the only thing which can be properly considered sexual deviance. Everything else is just a matter of taste.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud
At that moment when a person starts to seriously ponder the meaning and value of life, you can consider him a madman
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. Sigmund Freud
The first person to throw an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud
Ideal, eternal love, purged of all hatred, exists only between the addict and his drug.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud
We live in a thoroughly strange time in which we are surprised to note that progress is marching in step with barbarism.
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten? Sigmund Freud
When people criticize me, I know how to defend myself. But I’m powerless in the face of praise
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. Sigmund Freud
We are never so vulnerable as when we love, and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of our love.
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. Sigmund Freud
People are more moral than they think, and much more amoral than they imagine.
Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man’s likeness to a god still more. Sigmund Freud
A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended; and that which is comprehended is not real.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement. Sigmund Freud
Every normal person is, in fact, only normal in part.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair. Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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. Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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 necessities. Sigmund Freud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Sigmund Freud
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.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. Sigmund Freud
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality. Sigmund Freud
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. Sigmund Freud
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. Sigmund Freud
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure that you’re not surrounded by fools.
Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions. Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud
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. Sigmund Freud
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.
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. Sigmund Freud
We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. Sigmund Freud
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Where id was, there ego shall be. Sigmund Freud
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself. Sigmund Freud
We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. Sigmund Freud
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.
It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. 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.
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. Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another. Sigmund Freud
Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. Sigmund Freud
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair.
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Sigmund Freud
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. 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.
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three. Sigmund Freud
Everything that you do in bed is perfectly and absolutely acceptable. If only both sides enjoyed it.
At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Sigmund Freud
All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. Sigmund Freud
Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. 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?
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle. Sigmund Freud
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. Sigmund Freud
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past.
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id. 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.
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id. Sigmund Freud
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id. Sigmund Freud
The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
The ego feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling. Sigmund Freud
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. Sigmund Freud
A large part of what is real within us is not comprehended; and that which is comprehended is not real.
