Sigmund Freud Quotes

( Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. )

1. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
    
2. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
    
3. 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?'
    
4. Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
    
5. 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.
    
6. At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
    
7. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
    
8. Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
    
9. Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
    
10. What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
     
11. In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
     
12. A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
     
13. Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
     
14. The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
     
15. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
     
16. If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority.