Brilliant Thoughts of Freud

• "If youth knew, if age could."

• "The madman is a dreamer awake."

• "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

• "Dream"

• "Everyone owes nature a death."

• "Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried and will come forth later in uglier ways."

• "Where id is, there shall ego be."

• "The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is to you in the past. And the only person you should be better, is who you are now."

• "The better is always enemy of the good."

• "We are what we are, because we have been what we have been."

• "History is just new people making old mistakes."

• "The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish."

• "The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside."

• "A religion, even it call itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."

• Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."

• "Love is a state of temporary psychosis."

• "We may know to defend ourselves from critic, but we are powerless in the face of praise."

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

• "Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable that the manifold burdens we carry."

• "Children are completely egoistic, they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

• "Everyone has wishes, which we wouldn't like to tell to others and even to admit to ourselves."

• "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

• "Without love we fall ill."

• "In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart."

• "We are never so vulnerable as when we love."

• "Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves when attacked, but ..a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment." 

• "It's impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."

• " The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."

• "Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much easier to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and cannot do without pain and anxiety; from the external world, which may rage against us with  merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to others.The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other."

• "Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday."

• "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer."

• "I have found little good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.."

• "Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world)."

- Sigmund Freud 
neurologist and father of the psychoanalysis