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" What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. "

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" The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Time spent with cats is never wasted. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. "

" The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. "

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

" Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "

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

" Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. "

" What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. "

" The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. "

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

" The goal of all life is death. "

" Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. "

" The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. "

" America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. "

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

" The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. "

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

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