My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Without love we fall ill.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.