773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash...

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Not all men are worthy of love.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.