“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Intelligence
“The goal of all life is death.”
DeathAll Quotes by 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.”
Freedom“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Nature“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“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“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Love“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Men“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”
Dreams“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 youth knew if age could.”
Age“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
Love“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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Time“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“The goal of all life is death.”
Death“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Men“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
Experience“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
Love“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
Religion