773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.