Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
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.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.