Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.__Sigmund Freud
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.__Sigmund Freud
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.__Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.__Sigmund Freud
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.__Sigmund Freud
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.__Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953
The goal of all life is death.__Sigmund Freud
The Irish is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use.__Sigmund Freud
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.__Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932