Austrian neurologist
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. – Sigmund Freud
Despite my thirty years of research into the woman soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want? – Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – 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
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. – Sigmund Freud
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. – Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. – Sigmund Freud
The desire for self-development stems from ‘narcissistic’ desires, a tendency to self-aggrandizement and superiority over others. – Sigmund Freud
I cannot imagine life without work as really comfortable. – Sigmund Freud
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. – Sigmund Freud
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. – Sigmund Freud
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too – Sigmund Freud
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – 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
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. – Sigmund Freud
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. – Sigmund Freud
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.” – Sigmund Freud
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love. – Sigmund Freud
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. – Sigmund Freud
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. – Sigmund Freud
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. – Sigmund Freud
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. – Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. – Sigmund Freud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. – Sigmund Freud
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. – Sigmund Freud
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. – Sigmund Freud
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