773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

The goal of all life is death

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.