The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
Without love we fall ill.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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