Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.
The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
One is very crazy when in love.
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
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