Sigmund Freud Quotes
"The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought.""Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet.""Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation.""If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.""Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.""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.""Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.""Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.""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.""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.""Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.""A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.""Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.""Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.""The madman is a dreamer awake.""Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.""No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.""I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole.""Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.""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."