773 Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The solemn resolutions, which are nevertheless broken, never to do it again, the stupefying pleasure and the bad conscience which tells the subject he is ruining himself.

It is not easy to treat feelings scientifically.

One can love one another properly only when one is close. What is memory compared to what one can behold!

The great question that has never been answered and which I have no yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

What a distressing contrast is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?

The ego’s relation to the id might be compared to that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding the powerful animal’s movement.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten.