Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. Sigmund Freud More Quotes by Sigmund Freud More Quotes From Sigmund Freud What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? Sigmund Freud joylifelong Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. Sigmund Freud understandingevildream Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. Sigmund Freud hystericalmiseryunhappiness It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. Sigmund Freud littlesgivinghands Love and work, work and love...that's all there is. Sigmund Freud life-and-loveworklove One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud godlycrazylove Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security. Sigmund Freud safetychancepeople Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. Sigmund Freud menwarpeace We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it. Sigmund Freud majoritystrongpeople Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door. Sigmund Freud neurosiskeysdoors The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. Sigmund Freud intentioncreationmen Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday. Sigmund Freud yesterdaydream The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud angerinspirationalcivilization Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. Sigmund Freud pressesdesireinspirational It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need. Sigmund Freud naturehumanitychildren No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. Sigmund Freud dyingsuicidedeath The voice of reason is small, but very persistent. Sigmund Freud voice-of-reasonvoicereason No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society. Sigmund Freud workmeanreality When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. Sigmund Freud pros-and-consdecisionfound Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. Sigmund Freud creativityimaginationdream
