Famous Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Below are famous quotes by Sigmund Freud - Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939).

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The goal of all life is death.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

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