773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

Happiness is the belated fulfilment of a prehistoric wish. For this reason wealth brings so little happiness. Money was not a childhood wish.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Nous avons eu l'impression que la formation des rêves obscurs se déroulait comme si une personne qui dépend d'une deuxième avait à exprimer quelque chose qui ne peut qu'être désagréable à entendre par cette dernière et c'est en se fondant sur cette comparaison que nous avons appréhendé la notion de déformation du rêve et la notion de censure.