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Sigmund Freud [1856-1939] Austrian

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Psychologist, Neurologist

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.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.	Good, Wisdom	74
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.	Dreams	101
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.	Gardening	102
Time spent with cats is never wasted.	Pet, Time	104
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.	Life, Success	105
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.	Brainy	106
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.		107
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.	Dreams, Knowledge	108
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.		109
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.	Love	110
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.	Love	111
If youth knew; if age could.	Age, Brainy	112
The ego is not master in its own house.		113
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.		114
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.		115
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.	Intelligence	116
The goal of all life is death.	Death	117
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.	Men	118
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.	Freedom	119
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.	Parenting	120
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.	Religion, Strength	121
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.		122
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.		123
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.		124
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.	Experience, Good	125
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.		126
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.	Men	201
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?'	Great	202
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.		203
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.	Time	204
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.	Work	205
If you can't do it, give up!		206
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.		207
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.		208
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.		209
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.		210
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.		211
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.	Freedom	212
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.		213
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.		214
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.	Alone, Happiness, Wisdom	215
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.	Success	216
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.	Experience	217
One is very crazy when in love.		218
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.		219
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.		220
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.		221
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.		222
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.		223
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.		224
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.		225
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.		226
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.		301
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.		302
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.		303
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.		304
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.	Happiness	305
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.	Dreams	306
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.	Intelligence	307
Where id was, there ego shall be.		308
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.		309
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.		310
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.		311
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.	Society	312
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?		313
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.		314
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.		315
Anatomy is destiny.		316
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.		317
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.		318

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