The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.