773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.