SIGMUND FREUD

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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

One is very crazy when in love.

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

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

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

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

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

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

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

The goal of all life is death.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

If youth knew; if age could.

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.

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.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

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

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