Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
If youth knew if age could.
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.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
One is very crazy when in love.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
The goal of all life is death.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.