We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.