“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Pet
“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.”
GodAll Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Intelligence“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Parenting“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Time“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Life“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Men“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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Men“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Men“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Freedom“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Dreams“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.”
Great“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“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Love“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Nature“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Love“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.”
Success“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Love“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“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Love