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

— 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

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

— Sigmund Freud

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

— Sigmund Freud

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

— Sigmund Freud

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love to have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

— Sigmund Freud

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

— Sigmund Freud