When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
Sigmund FreudEven if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
Sigmund FreudI no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund FreudHumor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund FreudThe pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.
Sigmund Freud