Sigmund Freud - (Attributed)

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
Sigmund Freud - Collected Writings, 1924
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
Sigmund Freud
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud - his essay on war & death
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion (1927)
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
Sigmund Freud
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud - Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

- Sigmund Freud - (Attributed)