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.

Sigmund Freud

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.