“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
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Famous Sigmund Freud Quotes
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: Major Works
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Source: Freud Verbatim
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
Source: Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
Source: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.”
Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works
“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: Collected Papers
Source: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
Source: The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade
“Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.”
Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM
Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM
“It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.”