It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand. – Sigmund Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. – Sigmund Freud
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud
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
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis wont do. Its an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought. – Sir Peter Medawar