Sigmund Freud

"The wish is the source of all neurotic symptoms."

"Our capacity for happiness is limited by our capacity for suffering."

"The superego is an internalization of parental authority and cultural values."

"Ambivalence, the existence of contradictory feelings, is central to human psychology."

"The search for meaning is a fundamental human need."

"Successful analysis requires courage to face one's deepest truths."

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

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

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."

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

"The unconscious is the only available means of understanding oneself."

"A person is, so to speak, not yet born when only twenty years old."

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

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

"The mind has a greater influence on health than medicine does."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow humans and we are responsible for their effects."

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

"What progress we are making in the world can be measured by the reduction in human suffering."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

"Most people do not really want freedom because freedom involves responsibility."

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

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

"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."

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

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling conferred by this success."

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