Sigmund Freud Quotes - Page 3

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.