It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces