Quotes by Sigmund FREUD

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

The ego is not master in its own house.