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"What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes."
"The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology."
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
"Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control."
"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
"One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself."
"By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression."
"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world."
"In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism."
"Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past."
"The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole."
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
"Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion."
"We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth."
"In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature."
"You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick."
"Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person."
"It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief."
"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."