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Sigmund Freud Quotes (183 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: The Future of an Illusion (1927) |
| “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey - Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) |
| “One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) |
| “It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Ch. 5, as translated by James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961) - Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) |
| “It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| “Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| “The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| Source/Notes: The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| “Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: Anxiety and Instinctual Life (Lecture 32) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
| “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.” ―Sigmund Freud Source/Notes: A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932) |
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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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