Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.