The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.