Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The ego is not master in its own house.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

If youth knew; if age could.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

If you can't do it, give up!

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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

The goal of all life is death.

Where id was, there ego shall be.