If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
SIGMUND FREUDIf it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
SIGMUND FREUDI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
SIGMUND FREUDA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
SIGMUND FREUDBeauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
SIGMUND FREUDHow bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
SIGMUND FREUDMaturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
SIGMUND FREUDMy love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
SIGMUND FREUDThere is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
SIGMUND FREUDHumanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
SIGMUND FREUDMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUDWithout love we fall ill.
SIGMUND FREUDThe virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUDNeurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUDLoneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
SIGMUND FREUDIn the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
SIGMUND FREUDThe interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
SIGMUND FREUD