Sigmund Freud Quotes

• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Love, Work

• Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illness

• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Being

• Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Incidental

• Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Love, Work

• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

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  Tags in Necessarily

• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Civilization

• Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Men

• Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Reality

• Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

  Sigmund Freud

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• The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Birth

• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Dreams, Road

• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Cigar, Just

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

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Mind, Floats

• The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Nature

• The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Civilization

• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Liberty, Civilization

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Needs

• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Psychoanalysis

• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Human

Sigmund Freud (115)

Birth:	6th May, 1856
Death:	23rd September, 1939
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Neurologist, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Scientist

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