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Sigmund Freud quotes

1856–1939 · Austrian founder of psychoanalysis

Freud's ideas about the unconscious changed how the 20th century talked about itself. His most famous joke about cigars is one he never made.

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2 quotes traced to Sigmund Freud's own work or a reliable witness.

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.

Source: The Future of an Illusion, ch. 10 (1927)

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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Lecture 31 (1933)

1 famous lines credited to Sigmund Freud that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Actually: No source in Freud's writings or in reliable accounts of his conversation; it appears decades after his death.