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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
-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

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion
-Sigmund Freud

Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
-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

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

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

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
-Sigmund Freud

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
-Sigmund Freud

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
-Sigmund Freud

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
-Sigmund Freud

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
-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

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

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

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
-Sigmund Freud

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...
-Sigmund Freud

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
-Sigmund Freud

And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say - the last and the most profound.
-Sigmund Freud

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
-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

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

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

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
-Sigmund Freud

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
-Sigmund Freud

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

The ego is not master in its own house.
-Sigmund Freud

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

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

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