Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
Sigmund FreudThe wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Sigmund FreudOpposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund FreudWords and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
Sigmund FreudJust as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
Sigmund FreudI have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
Sigmund Freud