“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
Dreams
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
PetAll Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
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“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“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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Good“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Love“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Religion“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Nature“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Life“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“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Men“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“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Love“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Parenting“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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Experience“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Pet“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Home“The goal of all life is death.”
Death