I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.