Sigmund Freud Quotes

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders.

My appearance was immaculate… I had bought myself a new shirt and white gloves, as the washable pair are no longer very nice; I had my hair set and my rather wild beard trimmed in the French style; altogether I spent fourteen francs on the evening. As a result I looked very fine and made […]

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 object-relations.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”… We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us.

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

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

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.