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

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

The ego is not master in its own house.