Sigmund Freud Quotes: 16

• One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

• We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

• Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

  The Future of an Illusion

• A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

• 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.

  Civilization and Its Discontents

• Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

• No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

  The Future of an Illusion

• It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

  Civilization and Its Discontents

• The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

  Sexuality and the Psychology of Love

• The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

  Civilization and Its Discontents

• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  The Future of an Illusion

• Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

  The Future of an Illusion