Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- All from Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939

About: Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born at Freiburg, now part of the Czech Republic, on 6 May in 1856. Sigmund's mother was twenty years younger than his father, younger than his step-brother, and Sigmund was an uncle on the day he was born. Spurned by a young lady at age 16, he reserved his affections for his mother for ten years. It's no wonder that he spent his life trying to analyze the lives and loves of his patients, also no wonder that his work attracted such controversy. Fortunately, at least some of what he had to say makes sense.