The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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• Sigmund Freud:

  Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

• Sigmund Freud:

  A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

• Sigmund Freud:

  We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of fo

• Sigmund Freud:

  Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

• Sigmund Freud:

  The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: ye

• Sigmund Freud:

  Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

• Sigmund Freud:

  Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

• Sigmund Freud:

  Anatomy is destiny.

• Sigmund Freud:

  A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legit

• Sigmund Freud:

  Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other wa