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“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”

Sigmund Freud

Letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779
1930s

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

Sigmund Freud

“When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.”

Sigmund Freud book Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”

Sigmund Freud Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Source: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”

Sigmund Freud

Source: On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”

Sigmund Freud

Source: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

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

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.”

Sigmund Freud

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”

Sigmund Freud book The Future of an Illusion

Es braucht nicht gesagt zu werden, daß eine Kultur, welche eine so große Zahl von Teilnehmern unbefriedigt läßt und zur Auflehnung treibt, weder Aussicht hat, sich dauernd zu erhalten, noch es verdient.
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

Sigmund Freud

“Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams