| When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. |
| 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. |
| One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. |
| We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. |
| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
| Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. |
| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. |
| Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. |
| The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want |
| 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. |
| One is very crazy when in love. |
| Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. |
| Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites. |
| Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. |
| From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. |
| We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. |
| Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. |
| Anatomy is destiny. |
| The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. |
| America is a mistake, a giant mistake. |
