“Where id is, there shall ego be.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
“The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''”
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”
“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”
“It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.”
“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.”
“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
“The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.”
“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”
“Anatomy is destiny.”
“One is very crazy when in love.”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
“By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”