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

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.""America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.""Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.""The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.""Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.""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."

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