Memorable Quotes and quotations from Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939)


Sigmund Freud - Collected Writings, 1924
- Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud -
- From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud -
- Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud -
- Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud -
- America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud -
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud -
- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

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

Sigmund Freud -
- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud -
- What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud -
- The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud - Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
- We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

Sigmund Freud - his essay on war & death
- If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Sigmund Freud -
- From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud -
- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Sigmund Freud -
- Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

Sigmund Freud -
- Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud - (Attributed)
- The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.