Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. Read Summary
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Read Summary
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Read Summary
The ego is not master in its own house. Read Summary
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Read Summary
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Read Summary
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Read Summary
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Read Summary
Where id was, there ego shall be. Read Summary
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Read Summary
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Read Summary
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Read Summary
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
If you can't do it, give up! Read Summary
One is very crazy when in love. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary