Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

“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.”

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

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.”

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”

“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”

“Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.”

“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.”