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.
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.
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.
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Now it is nothing but torture.