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Sigmund Freud Quotes
«The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
founder, foundering, founders, hurled, The First Stone, The Founders
«The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
constitutionally, illnesses, layman, laymen, restrict, severe
«We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, alienate, alienating, observed, real life
«The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.»
«Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unbeliever»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Secrets
| Keywords:
out-and-out, private life, unbeliever, unbelievers
«One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
«It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.»
«The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)