What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud quote We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud quote We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud quote Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud quote Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud quote Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud quote One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud quote 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.
Sigmund Freud quote Biography
Austrian psychiatrist 1856-1939