Sigmund Freud Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• If youth knew; if age could.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Age, Youth

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Time, Book

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud

• After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

  Sigmund Freud

  Symbolism, Imagination, Age

• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Humanity, Age

• In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Support, Age

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Home, Age

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

• In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

  Sigmund Freud

  Effort, Soul, Age

  "Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home". Book by Emanuel Rice, p. 25, quoting Letter to Dr. David Feuchtwang (1931), 1990.

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