Sigmund Freud Quotes

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. - Sigmund Freud

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. - Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things. - Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. - Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Sigmund Freud

Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in addition, cruelty. God has made them in his own image, with his own perfections; no one wants to be reminded how hard it is to reconcile the undeniable existence-in spite of all the protestations of Christian Science-of evil with His omnipotence and supreme goodness. - Sigmund Freud

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. - Sigmund Freud

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. - Sigmund Freud

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. - Sigmund Freud

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will. - Sigmund Freud

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