“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
More from Sigmund Freud on Philosophy
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”
“We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.”
“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....”
“Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.”
“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”