Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian Physician, Founder of Psychoanalysis

These Sigmund Freud quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. - Sigmund Freud


The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us, of becoming happy, is not attainable: yet we may not, nay, cannot, give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. - Sigmund Freud


Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. - Sigmund Freud


Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. - Sigmund Freud


Love and stoplights can be cruel. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud


The ego is not master in its own house. - Sigmund Freud


Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sigmund Freud


A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud


Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. - Sigmund Freud