Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.