Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. - Sigmund Freud

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

Τι πρόοδος! Τον Μεσαίωνα θα με καίγανε στην πυρά. Τώρα, καίνε στην πυρά τα βιβλία μου.

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it — all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.