Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.