The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
From Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
If youth knew; if age could.
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