Sigmund Freud Quotes

  • It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.Upload to Facebook
    It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
  • Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.Upload to Facebook
    Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
  • Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.Upload to Facebook
    Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
    ~ 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.Upload to Facebook
    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
  • The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.Upload to Facebook
    The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
    ~ Sigmund Freud, The Question of Lay Analysis
  • At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.Upload to Facebook
    At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
  • Progress: In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.  Now they are content with burning my books.Upload to Facebook
    Progress: In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
  • Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.Upload to Facebook
    Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
  • I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.Upload to Facebook
    I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
    ~ Sigmund Freud
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