Sigmund Freud

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

Sigmund Freud

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Sigmund Freud

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.

Sigmund Freud

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

Sigmund Freud

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones – whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it.

Sigmund Freud

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Sigmund Freud