Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

“The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.”

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”