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.

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Sigmund Freud

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

- Sigmund Freud

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Sigmund Freud

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man ... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

- Sigmund Freud

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.

- Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

- Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

- Sigmund Freud

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats them.

- Sigmund Freud