Sigmund Freud Quotes
1856 - 1939
 
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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.
Sigmund Freud— Sigmund Freud, letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality, 1935
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud— 1927 The Future of an Illusion.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud— Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
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.
Sigmund Freud— In: Del Thiessen Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior, Transaction Publishers, 31 December 2011, p.258
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
Sigmund Freud— 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
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Sigmund Freud— Sigmund Freud in a letter to his fiancée Martha Bernays (27 June 1882); published in Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939 (1961), 10-12
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud— Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis (1856 - 1939)
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
Sigmund Freud— 1927 The Future of an Illusion.
