Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.