The ego is not master in its own house.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

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