99 Most Engrossing Sigmund Freud Quotes
Sigismund Schlomo Freud, popularly known as Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who lived from 1856 to 1939. He is famous as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna and later on became a practicing neurologist within Vienna. However, it was not as a neurologist that Freud became globally renowned. He gained recognition as the founder of psychoanalysis, a treatment for mental or emotional problems through talks between the therapist and patient. Freud was responsible for some of the path-breaking theories in psychology like ‘Ego’, ‘Alter Ego’ and also introduced the concept of ‘Oedipus Complex’. Most of what is studied in the field of psychology owes a lot to the findings of Freud and the books that he had written are still considered among the best to have ever been written on the subject. Freud wrote number of books throughout a career that spanned several decades and his most famous work remains ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’. His other famous works include ‘The Ego and the Id’, ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’, ‘Group Psychology’ and ‘The Analysis of the Ego and The Future of an Illusion’ among others. His books and writings covered number of subjects and viewpoints. His books, thoughts and writings still have a large readership. Here are some of Sigmund Freud’s most famous quotes which have been scanned through his vast sea of writings and books.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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.
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
The madman is a dreamer awake
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
Where id is, there shall ego be
