The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

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

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.