Sigmund Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one’s sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Sigmund Freud

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Sigmund Freud

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

Sigmund Freud

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Sigmund Freud

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Sigmund Freud

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

Sigmund Freud

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud