Sigmund Freud

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

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

—Sigmund Freud

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

—Sigmund Freud

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.

One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

—Sigmund Freud

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

—Sigmund Freud

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

—Sigmund Freud

We choose not randomly each other.

We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

—Sigmund Freud

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

—Sigmund Freud

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

—Sigmund Freud

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans.

Certainly, a wild animal is cruel.

But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

—Sigmund Freud

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

—Sigmund Freud

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day–until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

—Sigmund Freud

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

—Sigmund Freud

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

—Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death.

—Sigmund Freud

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

—Sigmund Freud

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

—Sigmund Freud

It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

—Sigmund Freud

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

—Sigmund Freud

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

—Sigmund Freud

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

—Sigmund Freud

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

—Sigmund Freud

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

—Sigmund Freud

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

—Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

—Sigmund Freud

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

—Sigmund Freud

In girls, there is no greater desire than that protected by the father.

—Sigmund Freud

If humanity was able to learn by direct observation of children, I could have spared myself the trouble to write this book.

—Sigmund Freud

The origin of neuroses is to be found in trauma occurred in childhood.

—Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the consequence of the renunciation of instincts.

—Sigmund Freud

Civilization is something imposed on a recalcitrant majority by a minority who understood how to take ownership of the means of power and coercion.

—Sigmund Freud