Sigmund Freud

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Sigmund Freud

Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.

Sigmund Freud

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Sigmund Freud

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Sigmund Freud

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Sigmund Freud

I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

Sigmund Freud

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

Sigmund Freud