He was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and prominent thinker of the early twentieth century.
Freud elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system and more than any other explorer of the psyche, he has shaped the mind of the 20th century. He is the father of psychoanalysis. As the originator of Psychoanalysis, Freud distinguished himself as an intellectual giant. He pioneered new techniques for understanding human behavior, and his efforts resulted in the most comprehensive theory of personality and psychotherapy ever developed.
Today he falls under criticism from most sides, as his speculative theories fail to find support. However, Freud’s work presented a new way of thinking about human nature, and his legacy lives in beliefs of millions around the world.
(1856 – 1939)
– Sigmund Freud Quotes –
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
~ Sigmund Freud
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~ Sigmund Freud
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
~ Sigmund Freud
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
~ Sigmund Freud
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
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
~ 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
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
~ Sigmund Freud
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~ Sigmund Freud
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.
~ Sigmund Freud
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
~ 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 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.
~ Sigmund Freud
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
~ Sigmund Freud
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.
~ Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is “good” about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
~ Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~ Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
~ Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
~ Sigmund Freud
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~ Sigmund Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
~ Sigmund Freud
The goal of all life is death.
~ 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
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.s
~ Sigmund Freud
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
~ Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
~ Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
~ Sigmund Freud
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
~ Sigmund Freud
