Quotes from Sigmund Freud

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

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.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Not all men are worthy of love.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.