"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." Sigmund Freud
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture." Sigmund Freud
"The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris." Sigmund Freud
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sigmund Freud
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition." Sigmund Freud
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books." Sigmund Freud
"America is a mistake, a giant mistake." Sigmund Freud
"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." Sigmund Freud
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." Sigmund Freud
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." Sigmund Freud
"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." Sigmund Freud
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.' Sigmund Freud
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." Sigmund Freud
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." Sigmund Freud
"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?" Sigmund Freud
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." Sigmund Freud
"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think." Sigmund Freud
"The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life." 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
"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life." Sigmund Freud
"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." Sigmund Freud
"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!" Sigmund Freud
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." Sigmund Freud
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." Sigmund Freud
"One is very crazy when in love." Sigmund Freud
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism." Sigmund Freud
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces." Sigmund Freud
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." Sigmund Freud
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it." Sigmund Freud
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." Sigmund Freud
"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young." Sigmund Freud
