I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

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.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.