The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.

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

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

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.