Quotes By Sigmund Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.