No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Sigmund Freud quote Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud quote Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud quote Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud quote Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud quote Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud quote If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud quote 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.
Sigmund Freud quote Biography
Austrian psychiatrist 1856-1939