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.

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.