It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

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.

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.