It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

There are no mistakes.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.