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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
