The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of the accepted rules of design.
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
