773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.