Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.
If you can't do it, give up!
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
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