Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.