If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.