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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

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

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

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

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

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

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