Quotes by Sigmund Freud

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that a part of us shall remain inconsolable and never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it is completely filled, it will nevertheless remain something changed forever...

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

"Poets…are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams…not yet made accessible to science."

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.