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.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reck...
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
One is very crazy when in love.
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 spi...
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.