773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

A strong egoism is a protection.

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.