“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Intelligence
“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.”
ExperienceAll Quotes by 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.”
Alone“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Love“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“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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Freedom“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“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
Success“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
Intelligence“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“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Life“If youth knew if age could.”
Age“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Experience“The goal of all life is death.”
Death“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Men“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Love“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Love“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
Men“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Parenting“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Religion