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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

One is very crazy when in love.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The goal of all life is death.

If youth knew; if age could.

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

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

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

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

The ego is not master in its own house.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

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