773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

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.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.