Sigmund Freud Quotes

Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Au... more Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Austria, Freud developed key theories on the unconscious mind, the significance of dreams, and the structure of personality. His influential work established concepts such as the id, ego, and superego, shaping the field of psychology. less

"We are always haunted by the idea that we could have worked harder or done better. But that is our human condition.""No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.""The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness.""How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.""Wherever there is a creative mind, a solution to a problem will be proposed. ""The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.""A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.""Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. ""The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ""Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ""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.""One is very crazy when in love.""The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.""The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.""The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.""The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.""Dreaming is a kind of mental illness or rather something more commonly paired with it.""We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.""Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.""From error to error one discovers the entire truth."

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