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 al...
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.
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.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of gaps and uncerta...
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.