Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Pribor, Czech Republic. He was an Austrian neurologist. He was the founder of psychoanalysis, developing theories about the unconscious mind and the tripartite structure of the psyche, and introducing therapeutic techniques such as free association and dream analysis. May these Sigmund Freud quotes and sayings offer you insights that will inspire you in your daily life.
1. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.” – Sigmund Freud
2. “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.” – Sigmund Freud
3. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
4. “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” – Sigmund Freud
5. “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” – Sigmund Freud
6. “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” – Sigmund Freud
7. “The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.” – Sigmund Freud
8. “Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.” – Sigmund Freud
9. “Love and work, work and love, that's all there is.” – Sigmund Freud
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10. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
11. “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.” – Sigmund Freud
12. “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” – Sigmund Freud
13. “One is very crazy when in love.” – Sigmund Freud
14. “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
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15. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” – Sigmund Freud
17. “Without love we fall ill.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “The goal of all life is death.” – Sigmund Freud
19. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud
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20. “The ego is not master in its own house.” – Sigmund Freud
21. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression, make sure that you're not surrounded by fools.” – Sigmund Freud
22. “Most people don't really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud
23. “If youth knew; if age could.” – Sigmund Freud
24. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.” – Sigmund Freud
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25. “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” – Sigmund Freud
26. “A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.” – Sigmund Freud
27. “Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.” – Sigmund Freud
28. “The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” – Sigmund Freud
29. “The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now.” – Sigmund Freud
30. “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.” – Sigmund Freud
More Famous Quotes by Sigmund Freud
31. “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” – Sigmund Freud
32. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” – Sigmund Freud
33. “Anatomy is destiny.” – Sigmund Freud
34. “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” – Sigmund Freud
35. “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man. It constitutes a powerful obstacle to culture.” – Sigmund Freud
36. “If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.” – Sigmund Freud
37. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.” – Sigmund Freud
38. “I’ve been a fortunate man in life. Nothing has come easily.” – Sigmund Freud
39. “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” – Sigmund Freud
40. “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” – Sigmund Freud
41. “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” – Sigmund Freud
42. “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” – Sigmund Freud
43. “Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.” – Sigmund Freud
44. “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” – Sigmund Freud
45. “Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.” – Sigmund Freud
46. “Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.” – Sigmund Freud
47. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” – Sigmund Freud
48. “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.” – Sigmund Freud
49. “Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” – Sigmund Freud
50. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
51. “What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” – Sigmund Freud
52. “Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.” – Sigmund Freud
53. “It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.” – Sigmund Freud
54. “I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans.” – Sigmund Freud
55. “Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” – Sigmund Freud
56. “I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.” – Sigmund Freud
57. “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.” – Sigmund Freud
58. “We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.” – Sigmund Freud
59. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” – Sigmund Freud
60. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
61. “Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.” – Sigmund Freud
62. “Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.” – Sigmund Freud
63. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud
64. “Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.” – Sigmund Freud
65. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” – Sigmund Freud
66. “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.” – Sigmund Freud
67. “What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” – Sigmund Freud
68. “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.” – Sigmund Freud
69. “In the small matters, trust the mind, in the large ones, the heart.” – Sigmund Freud
70. “It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.” – Sigmund Freud
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2. “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.” – Sigmund Freud
3. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
4. “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” – Sigmund Freud
5. “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” – Sigmund Freud
6. “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” – Sigmund Freud
7. “The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.” – Sigmund Freud
8. “Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.” – Sigmund Freud
9. “Love and work, work and love, that's all there is.” – Sigmund Freud
11. “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.” – Sigmund Freud
12. “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” – Sigmund Freud
13. “One is very crazy when in love.” – Sigmund Freud
14. “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” – Sigmund Freud
17. “Without love we fall ill.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “The goal of all life is death.” – Sigmund Freud
19. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud
21. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression, make sure that you're not surrounded by fools.” – Sigmund Freud
22. “Most people don't really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud
23. “If youth knew; if age could.” – Sigmund Freud
24. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.” – Sigmund Freud
26. “A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.” – Sigmund Freud
27. “Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.” – Sigmund Freud
28. “The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” – Sigmund Freud
29. “The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only person better you should be, this is who you are now.” – Sigmund Freud
30. “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.” – Sigmund Freud
More Famous Quotes by Sigmund Freud
31. “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” – Sigmund Freud
32. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.” – Sigmund Freud
33. “Anatomy is destiny.” – Sigmund Freud
34. “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” – Sigmund Freud
35. “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man. It constitutes a powerful obstacle to culture.” – Sigmund Freud
36. “If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.” – Sigmund Freud
37. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.” – Sigmund Freud
38. “I’ve been a fortunate man in life. Nothing has come easily.” – Sigmund Freud
39. “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” – Sigmund Freud
40. “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” – Sigmund Freud
41. “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” – Sigmund Freud
42. “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” – Sigmund Freud
43. “Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.” – Sigmund Freud
44. “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” – Sigmund Freud
45. “Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.” – Sigmund Freud
46. “Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.” – Sigmund Freud
47. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” – Sigmund Freud
48. “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.” – Sigmund Freud
49. “Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” – Sigmund Freud
50. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
51. “What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” – Sigmund Freud
52. “Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.” – Sigmund Freud
53. “It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.” – Sigmund Freud
54. “I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans.” – Sigmund Freud
55. “Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” – Sigmund Freud
56. “I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.” – Sigmund Freud
57. “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.” – Sigmund Freud
58. “We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.” – Sigmund Freud
59. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” – Sigmund Freud
60. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
61. “Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.” – Sigmund Freud
62. “Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.” – Sigmund Freud
63. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud
64. “Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.” – Sigmund Freud
65. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” – Sigmund Freud
66. “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.” – Sigmund Freud
67. “What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” – Sigmund Freud
68. “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.” – Sigmund Freud
69. “In the small matters, trust the mind, in the large ones, the heart.” – Sigmund Freud
70. “It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.” – Sigmund Freud
Share these Best Sigmund Freud Quotes about Life with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.