Where id was, there ego shall be.

Now it is nothing but torture.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.