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Sigmund Freud Quotes & Sayings

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
- Sigmund Freud

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.
- Sigmund Freud

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.
- Sigmund Freud

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
- Sigmund Freud

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."
- Sigmund Freud

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.
- Sigmund Freud

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
- Sigmund Freud

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
- Sigmund Freud

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
- Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
- Sigmund Freud

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