“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
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
SuccessAll Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“One is very crazy when in love.”
Love“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Men“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Religion“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
Dreams“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Parenting“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Men“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“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Love“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Intelligence“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“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Men“If youth knew if age could.”
Age“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Life“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Freedom“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“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“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Home“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Experience“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.”
God