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

"Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.""Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality.""Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.""He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.""Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.""It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.""It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement.""Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.""Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.""Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?""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.""The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.""He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.""Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."

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