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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, espec...  
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into acc...  
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.  
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am...  
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more...  
Anatomy is destiny.  
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.  
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and ...  
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to ...  
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego a...  
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .  
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no ...  
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!  
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fa...  
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In...  
If youth knew; if age could.  
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow...  
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built...  
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one...  
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.  
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on ...  
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can ...  
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become pow...  
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves respo...  
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.  
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and...  
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and f...  
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed dem...  
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of o...  
One is very crazy when in love.  
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an...  
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that...  
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the sour...  
The ego is not master in its own house.  
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founde...  
The goal of all life is death.  
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming ...  
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not ...  
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standa...  
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was great...  
The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atro...  
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimat...  
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disp...  
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.  
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefor...  
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of th...  
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence ...   Intelligence
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned...  
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferab...  
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned...