Journey into the Psyche: 100 Powerful Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Embark on a captivating journey into the depths of the human psyche with “Journey into the Psyche: 100 Powerful Quotes by Sigmund Freud.” Explore the mind of the legendary psychoanalyst through a curated collection of his most insightful and thought-provoking quotes. Discover Freud’s groundbreaking theories and gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of human behavior. This compilation of powerful quotes promises to inspire, enlighten, and leave you with a newfound appreciation for the enduring impact of Sigmund Freud’s work.

Sigmund Freud Quotes

1- “The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” -Sigmund Freud

2- “A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.” -Sigmund Freud

3- “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” -Sigmund Freud

4- “For those particular illusions there may well have been a past; it is problematic, however, if there is now much of a future.” -Sigmund Freud

5- “If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.” -Sigmund Freud

6- “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” -Sigmund Freud

7- “To love one’s neighbour as oneself – a commandment which is really justified by the fact that nothing else runs as strongly counter to the original nature of man.” -Sigmund Freud

8- “The madman is a dreamer awake.” -Sigmund Freud

9- “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” -Sigmund Freud

10- “Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day.” -Sigmund Freud

11- “Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.” -Sigmund Freud

12- “Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.” -Sigmund Freud

13- “Couldn’t I for once have you and the work at the same time?” -Sigmund Freud

14- “Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.” -Sigmund Freud

15- “Love and work, work and love… that’s all there is.” -Sigmund Freud

16- “The words for much that remains mute in me.” -Sigmund Freud

17- “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” -Sigmund Freud

18- “The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now.” -Sigmund Freud

19- “The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.” -Sigmund Freud

20- “I’ve been a fortunate man in life. Nothing has come easily.” -Sigmund Freud

21- “Love is a state of temporary psychosis.” -Sigmund Freud

22- “Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.” -Sigmund Freud

23- “Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.” -Sigmund Freud

24- “The goal of all life is death.” -Sigmund Freud

25- “It is the relation of similarity, congruence, or convergence, the just like, which dreams have the most various means of expressing better than anything else.” -Sigmund Freud

27- “If you can’t do it, give up!” -Sigmund Freud

28- “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” -Sigmund Freud

29- “At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.” -Sigmund Freud

30- “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” -Sigmund Freud

31- “We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.” -Sigmund Freud

32- “Freud revelled in linguistic play, but, despite his appreciation of painting and especially sculpture, he did not know what to make of visual imagery in dreams.” -Sigmund Freud

33- “A strong egoism is a protection.” -Sigmund Freud

34- “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” -Sigmund Freud

35- “All who seek to be nobler than their constitution permits succumb to neurosis; they would have been better in health if they had found it possible to be morally worse.” -Sigmund Freud

36- “If youth knew; if age could.” -Sigmund Freud

37- “Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.” -Sigmund Freud

38- “As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.” -Sigmund Freud

39- “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.” -Sigmund Freud

40- “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” -Sigmund Freud

41- “It is precisely the minor differences in people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of strangeness and hostility between them.” -Sigmund Freud

42- “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.” -Sigmund Freud

43- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” -Sigmund Freud

44- “May we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization – possibly the whole of mankind – have become ‘neurotic’?” -Sigmund Freud

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

46- “Whoever possesses something that is at once valuable and fragile is afraid of other people’s envy, in so far as he projects on to them the envy he would have felt in their place.” -Sigmund Freud

47- “Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.” -Sigmund Freud

48- “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” -Sigmund Freud

49- “We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.” -Sigmund Freud

50- “We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.” -Sigmund Freud

51- “It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.” -Sigmund Freud

52- “I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.” -Sigmund Freud

53- “Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.” -Sigmund Freud

54- “Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.” -Sigmund Freud

55- “One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.” -Sigmund Freud

56- “And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy – and if they haven’t died, they are still alive today.” -Sigmund Freud

57- “The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.” -Sigmund Freud

58- “Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?” -Sigmund Freud

59- “Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.” -Sigmund Freud

60- “The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.” -Sigmund Freud

61- “Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.” -Sigmund Freud

62- “We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which he is clearly not responsible.” -Sigmund Freud

63- “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” -Sigmund Freud

64- “I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.” -Sigmund Freud

65- “So far we have mainly been concerned with probing after the hidden meaning of dreams, the route we should take to discover it, and the means the dream-work has employed to hide it.” -Sigmund Freud

66- “I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.” -Sigmund Freud

67- “Human’s intrinsic nature manifest in it’s misunderstandings.” -Sigmund Freud

68- “In tal modo era taciuta l’uccisione di Dio, ma un crimine la cui espiazione richiedeva che una vittima fosse immolata non poteva esser stato che un omicidio.” -Sigmund Freud

69- “Where id was, there ego shall be.” -Sigmund Freud

70- “Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.” -Sigmund Freud

71- “Alternatives are difficult to represent, and in some cases they are expressed by the division of the dream into two halves of equal length.” -Sigmund Freud

72- “Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis.” -Sigmund Freud

73- “I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.” -Sigmund Freud

74- “The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.” -Sigmund Freud

75- “Without love we fall ill.” -Sigmund Freud

76- “I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.” -Sigmund Freud

77- “Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.” -Sigmund Freud

78- “There are no mistakes.” -Sigmund Freud

79- “An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one’s life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.” -Sigmund Freud

80- “Anatomy is destiny.” -Sigmund Freud

81- “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” -Sigmund Freud

82- “We are never so vulnerable as when we love.” -Sigmund Freud

83- “As these examples show, Freud’s theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.” -Sigmund Freud

84- “In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” -Sigmund Freud

85- “Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.” -Sigmund Freud

86- “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.” -Sigmund Freud

87- “Not all men are worthy of love.” -Sigmund Freud

88- “It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man’s life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.” -Sigmund Freud

89- “The first thing the investigator comes to understand in comparing the dream-content with the dream-thoughts is that work of condensation has been carried out here on a grand scale.” -Sigmund Freud

90- “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.” -Sigmund Freud

91- “Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.” -Sigmund Freud

92- “The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.” -Sigmund Freud

93- “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.” -Sigmund Freud

94- “Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.” -Sigmund Freud