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Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.
Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.
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.
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.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
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.
I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.