15 Most Famous Sigmund Freud Quotes And Sayings
Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He was the father of Anna Freud and the grandfather of Sir Clement Freud and Lucian Freud.
There are 15 Most Famous Sigmund Freud Quotes:
Sigmund Freud Quotes
1. One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
― Sigmund Freud
2. Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
― Sigmund Freud
3. Analogies, it is true, decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
― Sigmund Freud
4. 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
5. Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
― Sigmund Freud
6. A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.
― Sigmund Freud
7. Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.
― Sigmund Freud
8. From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
― Sigmund Freud
9. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
10. It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
― Sigmund Freud
11. Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
― Sigmund Freud
12. Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
― Sigmund Freud
13. Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
14. 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
15. His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
― Sigmund Freud
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