public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

The goal of all life is death