In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

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.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.