Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. Sigmund Freud abusepraisescience America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud usamistakeamerica A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. Sigmund Freud lossmenfather Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. Sigmund Freud expressionlosschildren If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness. Sigmund Freud psychologyparentchildren Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud being-strongmilitarymen I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. Sigmund Freud majorityminoritiesdestiny If it's not one thing, it's your mother. Sigmund Freud pessimisticpsychologymother There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life. Sigmund Freud wakingtechniquedream The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself! Sigmund Freud newseyefirsts The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure. Sigmund Freud egosufferingreality I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. Sigmund Freud merittelling-the-truthtruth Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud obvioususecivilization When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud learningnaturelife Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free. Sigmund Freud bondagerememberpast Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. Sigmund Freud curesessencelife The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. Sigmund Freud lovelifedeath The goal of all life is death Sigmund Freud eulogygoallife Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. Sigmund Freud manipulationintellectualknowledge Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. Sigmund Freud illusionpainreality
