The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

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