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Freud Sigmund QUOTES

  • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  • Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  • Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

  • Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”



  • Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

  • The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  • Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

  • Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  • I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  • Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

  • Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

  • Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

  • Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

  • 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?”

  • Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

  • It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

  • Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

  • How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  • The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  • Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.


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