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