Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. Sigmund Freud

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

If you can't do it, give up!

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!