773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them.

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.