Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.