...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.