Sigmund Freud

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

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

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

Sigmund Freud

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Sigmund Freud

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Sigmund Freud