“Anatomy is destiny.”
“One is very crazy when in love.”
“Where id was, there shall ego be.”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
“By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.”
“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”
“The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.”
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
“It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.”
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''”
“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”