Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939 · 71 quotes
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
If youth knew; if age could.
The ego is not master in its own house.
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.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
If you can't do it, give up!
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Anatomy is destiny.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
