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