We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

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 very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.