Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“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.”

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

“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?'”

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”

“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.”