773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

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.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.