Sigmund Freud is one of the most notable figures in the history of psychology. The father of psychoanalysis has influenced many psychologists and, despite being criticized by others, his ideas about psychotherapy or personality are still studied in the career of psychology.
Explore our collection of Sigmund Freud Quotes that will inspire you to deal with life wisely.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
– Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Quotes
1. “Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
2. “The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.” – Sigmund Freud
3. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” – Sigmund Freud
4. “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” – Sigmund Freud
5. “Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.” – Sigmund Freud
6. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.” – Sigmund Freud
7. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
8. “Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.” – Sigmund Freud
9. “We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.” – Sigmund Freud
10. “Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.” – Sigmund Freud
Inspirational Sigmund Freud Quotes
11. “Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.” – Sigmund Freud
12. “Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.” – Sigmund Freud
13. “Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.” – Sigmund Freud
14.” Dreams are never concerned with trivia.” – Sigmund Freud
15. “The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.” – Sigmund Freud
16. “The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.” – Sigmund Freud
17. “The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.” – Sigmund Freud
18. “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.” – Sigmund Freud
19. “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” – Sigmund Freud
20. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud
21. “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” – Sigmund Freud
22. “With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair.” – Sigmund Freud
23. “Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.” – Sigmund Freud
24. “Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.” – Sigmund Freud
25. “We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliancee with barbarism.” – Sigmund Freud
26. “No one who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.” – Sigmund Freud
27. “The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.” – Sigmund Freud
28. “There is no such thing as an unconscious no.” – Sigmund Freud
29. “Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.” – Sigmund Freud
30. “We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” – Sigmund Freud
31. “Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.” – Sigmund Freud
32. “Human’s intrinsic nature manifest in it’s misunderstandings.” – Sigmund Freud
33. “One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world.” – Sigmund Freud
34. “Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
35. “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.” – Sigmund Freud
36. “When people criticise me, I know how to defend myself. But I’m powerless in the face of praise.” – Sigmund Freud
37. “All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.” – Sigmund Freud
38. “The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression.” – Sigmund Freud
39. “We can never give up; we only exchange one thing for another.” – Sigmund Freud
40. “Every man is a poet at heart.” – Sigmund Freud
41. “They love their delusions as they love themselves.” – Sigmund Freud
42. “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” – Sigmund Freud
43. “The mind is like an iceberg. It floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud
44. “In reality the ego is like the clown in the circus, who is always putting in his oar to make the audience think that whatever happens is his doing.” – Sigmund Freud
45. “It is an honour to have plenty of enemies!” – Sigmund Freud
46. “Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.” – Sigmund Freud
47. “Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.” – Sigmund Freud
48. “Just as the ego controls the path to action in regard to the external world, so it controls access to consciousness.” – Sigmund Freud
49. “Limitation in the possibility of an enjoyment raises the value of the enjoyment.” – Sigmund Freud
50. “The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.” – Sigmund Freud
51. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.” – Sigmund Freud
