A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.
Sigmund FreudCruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Sigmund FreudWhoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund FreudOne might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.
Sigmund Freud