Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”

“The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”

“Anatomy is destiny.”

“Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?”

“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”

“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

“Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.”

“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.”