Sigmund Freud Quotes

   1856 - 1939

Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. He published his  controversial  but  influential  ideas  in  such  works  as  The Interpretation    of    Dreams    (1900),   The    Psychopathology    of Everyday Life (1904) and Ego and Id (1923).

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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

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— Sigmund Freud, letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality, 1935

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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

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— 1927  The Future of an Illusion.

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

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— Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

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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.

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— In: Del Thiessen Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior, Transaction Publishers, 31 December 2011, p.258

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If someone talks of subconsciousness, I cannot tell whether he means the term topographically – to indicate something lying in the mind beneath consciousness – or qualitatively – to indicate another consciousness, a subterranean one, as it were. He is probably not clear about any of it. The only trustworthy antithesis is between conscious and unconscious

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— In: Erik Du Plessis The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us About the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand, Kogan Page Publishers, 3 February 2011, p.154

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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

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— Sigmund Freud in a letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12

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

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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— Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis (1856 - 1939)

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At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

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— 1927  The Future of an Illusion.

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

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