3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud 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?’
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
