Sigmund Freud Quotes
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.""Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.""What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.""The goal of all life is death.""The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.""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.""Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.""I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole.""No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.""Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.""The madman is a dreamer awake.""Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.""Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.""A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.""Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.""One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.""No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.""Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.""Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.""The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits."
