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
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.
I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.
People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.
We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
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.
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
At the bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''