dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.