We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.