When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUDAll family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
-
-
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUD -
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
SIGMUND FREUD -
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.
SIGMUND FREUD -
There 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 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 -
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
SIGMUND FREUD -
If you can’t do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUD -
The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
SIGMUND FREUD -
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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 -
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
SIGMUND FREUD -
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Humanity 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 FREUD -
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
SIGMUND FREUD -
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
SIGMUND FREUD -
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
SIGMUND FREUD -
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
SIGMUND FREUD -
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
SIGMUND FREUD -
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
SIGMUND FREUD -
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
SIGMUND FREUD