Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

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