In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

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

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.