No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human

breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. SIGMUND FREUD, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria 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? SIGMUND FREUD, Ernest Jones' Sigmund Freud: Life and Work If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority. SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. SIGMUND FREUD, The Future of an Illusion At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father. SIGMUND FREUD, Totem and Taboo In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. SIGMUND FREUD, The Future of an Illusion Where id is, there shall ego be. SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis The ego is not master in its own house. SIGMUND FREUD, A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology. SIGMUND FREUD, The Question of Lay Analysis When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. SIGMUND FREUD, Great Quotes for Great Educators Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

SIGMUND FREUD, The Educator's Book of Quotes Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. SIGMUND FREUD, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Oct. 15, 1897 He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. SIGMUND FREUD, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen ... but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. SIGMUND FREUD, Ronald W. Clark's Freud: The Man and His Cause If a man has been his mothers undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. SIGMUND FREUD, A Childhood Recollection There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life. SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. SIGMUND FREUD, And I Quote A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness. SIGMUND FREUD, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria The first request of civilization ... is that of justice. SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and Its Disconten