Freud Quotes – Unlocking the Wisdom of the Mind
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
The ego is not master in its own house. – Sigmund Freud
Where id was, there ego shall be. – Sigmund Freud
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. – Sigmund Freud
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. – Sigmund Freud
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud
The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past. – Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. – Sigmund Freud
Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me. – Sigmund Freud
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud
One is very crazy when in love. – Sigmund Freud
The goal of all life is death. – Sigmund Freud
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. – Sigmund Freud
The mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. – Sigmund Freud
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. – Sigmund Freud
Freud Quotes – Unlocking the Wisdom of the Mind part 2
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferable sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. – Sigmund Freud
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality. – Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud
Friendship is characterized by a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Sigmund Freud
The conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg; the subconscious mind is the vast hidden portion below the surface. – Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it warmly. – Sigmund Freud
Anatomy is destiny. – Sigmund Freud
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. – Sigmund Freud
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. – 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?’ – Sigmund Freud
The ego is not master in its own house. – Sigmund Freud
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is. – Sigmund Freud
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. – Sigmund Freud
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. – Sigmund Freud
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud
The conscious ego is continuously engaged in an unceasing struggle with the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud
Time spent with cats is never wasted. – Sigmund Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. – Sigmund Freud
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. – Sigmund Freud
A love relationship can evolve in two directions: growing into a mutual appreciation or growing into a mutual annihilation. – Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud
Love is a state of temporary insanity. – Sigmund Freud
Anatomy is destiny. – Sigmund Freud
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. – Sigmund Freud
The mind takes up only what it is prepared to accept. – Sigmund Freud