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

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.