Sigmund Freud

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

— Sigmund Freud

“One is very crazy when in love.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— 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

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

— Sigmund Freud

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

— Sigmund Freud

“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”

— 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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— 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

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

— 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

“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