Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

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.