Sigmund Freud is known for his novel and often controversial opinions. Such was the impact of his views that Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden said about Freud in a poem: “to us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives”. Here are 10 famous quotes of Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis.
#1
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
#2
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
#3
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
#4
What progress we are making. In the Middle-Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
#5
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
#6
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what direct his conduct in the world.
#7
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
#8
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
#9
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
#10
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”