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Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency it posits.

Quotes from Sigmund Freud

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

—Sigmund Freud

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.

—Sigmund Freud

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

—Sigmund Freud

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One is very crazy when in love.

—Sigmund Freud

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

—Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

—Sigmund Freud

We are only the beginning. I am only a beginner. I was successful in digging up buried monuments from the substrata of the mind. But where I have discovered a few temples, others may discover a continent.

—Sigmund Freud

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.

—Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could.

—Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

—Sigmund Freud