The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.