773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.