Sigmund Freud on Science
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Sigmund Freud, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #163329: "Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."
Attributed to Sigmund Freud, entry #115651: "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
9 Quotes by Sigmund Freud on Science
"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."
"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
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"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?"
"I don't rack my brains much over the subject of good and evil, but, on average, I haven't discovered much 'good' in men. Based on what I know of them, they are for the most part nothing but scoundrels."
"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
"Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years. ...They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis."
"We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression … We see, however that we have two kinds of unconscious — that which is latent but capable of becoming conscious, and that which is repressed and not capable of becoming conscious in the ordinary way."
"Princess, my little Princess, Oh, how wonderful it will be! I am coming with money and staying a long time and bringing something beautiful for you and then go on to Paris and become a great scholar and then come back to Vienna with a huge, enormous halo, and then we will soon get married, and I will cure all the incurable nervous cases and through you I shall be healthy and I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy — and "if they haven't died, they are still alive today.""