“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“The madman is a dreamer awake”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books ”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
“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 (1856-1939)
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash..."
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart."
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."
― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"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 (1856-1939)