Sigmund Freud Quotations

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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Poetry]

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Civilization]

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Civilization]

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Civilization]

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [America]

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [America]

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	more quotations on [Reality]

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.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Happiness]

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Dreams]

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.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Dreams]

The goal of all life is death.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Death]

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Psychology]

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Censorship]

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Inner Child] [Intelligence]

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Women]

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Mind]

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
	- Sigmund Freud	more quotations on [Letters]

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