Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freudwas an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 May 1856
CityPribor, Czech Republic
CountryAustria
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Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.