“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
“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Sigmund Freud
“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“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Love“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
Pet“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“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“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
Success“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Life“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.”
Dreams“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Intelligence“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Love“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Good“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Dreams“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Love“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Freedom“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Time“The goal of all life is death.”
Death“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“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Nature