I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

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

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

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

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.