Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

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

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.