Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.