773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.