Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

If you can't do it, give up!

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Where id was, there ego shall be.