Sigmund Freud

"The only way out is through."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

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

"Civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"The mind has a way of asserting itself."

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

"Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification."

"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret."

"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilized society is built up on renunciation of instinct."

"Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of missing something dear."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel what affects them."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"The unconscious is the larger circle which includes the smaller circle of consciousness."

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

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

"Creativity is the product of all our experience."

"The ability to change is the ability to survive."

"In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."

"Psychoanalysis is not just a theory and a technique but also an ideology based on a particular image of man."

"The repressions which the individual must carry around with him are the result of the repressions which society must carry around."

"Analysis does not aim at making pathological reactions impossible, but at giving the patient's ego freedom to choose one way or the other."

"Man has always believed that he was made in the image of God. Now he is beginning to realize that God was made in the image of man."

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

"Great minds are related to the madness of the gods."

"In the crucial moments of life, a man must meet their fate as they come."