Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

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

Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.