Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.

Sigmund Freud

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

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.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud