Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

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

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

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.

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.