You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

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

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.