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" Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. "

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" Time spent with cats is never wasted. "

" Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. "

" If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. "

" Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. "

" 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. "

" We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. "

" Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. "

" If you can't do it, give up! "

" 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. "

" The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. "

" Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. "

" 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. "

" Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. "

" Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be. "

" Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. "

" Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. "

" A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. "

" A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. "

" What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. "

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. "

" Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. "

" We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. "

" Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. "

" Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "

" The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. "

" Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. "

" 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?' "

" Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. "