We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.