Sigmund Freud Illusion Quotations

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.