 Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. |
| 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. |
| He does not believe that does not live according to his belief . |
| It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. |
| Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. |
| America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. |
| We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. |
| Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. |
| 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. |
| Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. |
| Where id was, there ego shall be. |
| 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. |
| Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. |
| Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. |
| The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. |
| The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. |
| 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. |
| I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. |
| The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. |
| Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. |
