Freud, Sigmund

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"The goal of all life is death."

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."

"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things." - Civilization and its Discontents

"Anatomy is destiny." - Collected Writings

"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand." - Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home." - New Introductory Lectures of Psychoanalysis

"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'" - quoted in Ernest Jones' Sigmund Freud: Life and Work

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing." - The Future of an Illusion