Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Without love we fall ill.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.