Sigmund Freud Quotes

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

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

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

Father, Childhood, Parenting, Strong

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted. Sigmund Freud

Time, Pet, Cats, Never, Wasted, Spent

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

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

Flowers, Gardening, Look, Emotions, Nor

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

Freedom, Responsibility, People, Want

If youth knew; if age could. - Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could. Sigmund Freud

Age, Youth, Brainy, Knew, Could

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. Sigmund Freud

Great, Sun, Mind, Back, Pool, Fountain

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

Woman, Great, Soul, Research, Never

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud

Angry, Time, Rock, Person, First Time

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

Dreams, Knowledge, Mind, Road, Royal

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

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

Water, Mind, Brainy, Like, Above, Bulk

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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. Sigmund Freud

Good, Experience, Think, You, Matter

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud

Good, Wisdom, Exercise, Honest, Being

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. - Sigmund Freud

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

Dreams, Crazy, Most, Seem, Profound

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud

Tolerate, Ambiguity, Inability, Neurosis

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. Sigmund Freud

Ego, Person, Only, Fact, Some, Normal

The ego is not master in its own house. - Sigmund Freud

The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud

Ego, House, Own, Master

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

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

Love, Suffering, Never, Against

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. - Sigmund Freud

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be. Sigmund Freud

Ego, ID, Where, Shall

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. Sigmund Freud

Character, Ambition, Bed, Connection, Us

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud

Sometimes, Just

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. - Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud

Me, Find, Go, Poet, Been, Everywhere

If you can't do it, give up! - Sigmund Freud

If you can't do it, give up! Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. Sigmund Freud

Life, Success, Mother, Confidence, Man

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

Impossible, Civilization, Instinct

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud

Love, Humble, Speak, Narcissism, Part

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