Sigmund Freud Quotes (183 quotes)
![]() | “We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (1961 edition) |
![]() | “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779 |
![]() | “I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated—with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Feb. 1, 1900. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 (1985). |
![]() | “I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Studies on Hysteria (1895), (co-written with Josef Breuer) as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004) |
![]() | “I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898) |
![]() | “And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called Human Bisexuality. It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say — the last and the most profound.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (7 August 1901) |
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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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