"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

"The goal of all life is death."

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""

"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."

"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."

"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."

"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

"Anatomy is destiny."

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."

"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."

"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."

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

"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."

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."

"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."