Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
The goal of all life is death.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
If youth knew if age could.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
One is very crazy when in love.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.