Sigmund Freud Quotes

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

A woman who is very anxious to get children always reads ‘storks’ for ‘stocks’.

The principal task of civilisation, its actual raison d’etre, is to defend us against nature.

Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

I am actually not at all a man of science… I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer.