Anatomy is destiny.
Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.
When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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?’
It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
Without love we fall ill.
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.