It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

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.

Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.