Quotes from The Interpretation of Dreams

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“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, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“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, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“الحلم ليس وليد كشف يفوق الطبيعة , بل هو يتبع قوانين النفس الإنسانية”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: "We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of ‘enough.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Places are often treated like persons.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“ان الذي نظنه لغزاً في الحلم , لابد أن يكون ذكرى واقعية منسية !”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Dreams are never concerned with trivia.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“اننا في الغالب ندور في أحلامنا حول الموضوعات التي كان لها أكبر الأثر في وجداننا.. وهذا يدل على أن مشاعرنا لها دخل كبير في خلق أحلامنا.. فمن كان طموحا دارت أحلامه حول أكاليل الغار.. ومنكان عاشقا دارت أحلامه حول معبودة قلبه”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its relationship to our psychical life when we are awake; its independence of disturbances which, during the state of sleep, seem to compel notice; its many peculiarities repugnant to our waking thought; the incongruence between its images and the feelings they engender; then the dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory. Before all there is the question as to the meaning of the dream, a question which is in itself double-sided. There is, firstly, the psychical significance of the dream, its position with regard to the psychical processes, as to a possible biological function; secondly, has the dream a meaning—can sense be made of each single dream as of other mental syntheses?”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“The medical profession is justly conservative.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“but the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which at the same time preserves something of the dream's former over-valuation. The foundation of dream life is for them a peculiar state of psychical activity, which they even celebrate as elevation to some higher state. Schubert, for instance, claims: "The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter." Not all go so far as this, but many maintain that dreams have their origin in real spiritual excitations, and are the outward manifestations of spiritual powers whose free movements have been hampered during the day ("Dream Phantasies," Scherner, Volkelt). A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields ("Memory").”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

“Dream-displacement and dream-condensation are the two foremen in charge of the dream-work, and we may put the shaping of our dreams down mainly to their activity.”
― Sigmund Freud, quote from The Interpretation of Dreams

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