Sigmund Freud Quotes

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

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

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Where id is, there shall ego be