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

“One is very crazy when in love.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”

— Sigmund Freud

“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.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The goal of all life is death.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

— 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

“If youth knew if age could.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

— 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.”

— Sigmund Freud

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

— Sigmund Freud