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This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.