Category Quotations

Sigmund Freud says: “What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high

Sigmund Freud says: “What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”

Sigmund Freud says: “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Sigmund Freud says: “To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.”

Sigmund Freud says: “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 says: “There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.”

Sigmund Freud says: “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…

Sigmund Freud says: “The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.”

Sigmund Freud says: “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

Sigmund Freud says: “The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.”