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Sigmund Freud Quotes (183 quotes)
 | “I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Psycho-analysis and faith: the letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister (1963 edition) |
| Source/Notes: Letter to Carl Jung (1906), as quoted in Freud and Man's Soul (1984) by Bruno Bettelheim |
| “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: In a letter to Marie Bonaparte. As quoted in: "Sigmund Freud: Life and Work" (1955) Vol. 2 by Ernest Jones, Chapter 16. |
| “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 Source/Notes: As quoted in his obituary, in the New York Times, 24 September, 1939 |
| Source/Notes: Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (15 October 1897), as quoted in Origins of Psychoanalysis |
| “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| “A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) |
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| “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.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: In German: "Hunde lieben ihre Freunde und beißen ihre Feinde, ganz anders als die Menschen, die reiner Liebe unfähig sind und jederzeit Liebe und Haß in ihren Objektbeziehungen mischen müssen." - As quoted by his daughter Anna Freud in the preface to the new edition (1981) of the book "Topsy: The Story of a Golden-Haired Chow" by Princess Marie Bonaparte. This quote is also reported to be in a letter Freud sent to Marie Bonaparte in 1936. |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in: "In favor of the sensitive man, and other essays" (1976 edition) by Anaïs Nin, p. 14 |
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Sigmund Freud
Born: May 6, 1856
Died: September 23, 1939 (aged 83)
Nationality: Austrian
Occupation: Psychologist
Bio: Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.
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