Sigmund Freud Quotes

Austrian - Psychologist May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Time Cats Pet Never Wasted

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Father Childhood Parenting Strong

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Look Gardening Flowers Emotions

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

Dreams Knowledge Mind Road

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?'

Woman Great Soul Research

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom People Responsibility Want

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

Stone Insult Human Civilization

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

Water Mind Brainy Like Above

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Ego Person Only Some

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.

Good Experience Think You

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Great Sun Mind Pool

The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego Own House Master

If you can't do it, give up!

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Happy Pleasure Us Goal

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Justice Civilization First Requisite

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Dreams Crazy Most Profound Seem

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

Impossible Civilization Instinct

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love Work Our Humanness

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

Children Feel Strive Them

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Civilization Existence Large Them

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Mistake America Giant

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Tolerate Ambiguity Inability Neurosis

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Love Suffering Never Against

The goal of all life is death.

Life Death Goal

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Eyes Lips Silent Betrayal

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Ego Where Shall ID

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