Sigmund Freud

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

"It is the inevitable fate of absolute power that it converts those who wield it into madmen."

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool from which it rises."

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

"We are at the mercy of our own images."

"The prime motivations of all human beings are sexual and aggressive."

"The goal of all life is death."

"I have often felt that friends are God's way of apologizing for our families."

"The only way out is through."

"Psychoanalysis is a cure through love."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

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

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"The unconscious is the true psychical reality."

"During the whole of a dull and painful life, I have consoled myself with the hope that philosophy would enable me to understand something of the nature of the universe."

"Human beings are motivated by unconscious drives and repressed memories."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

"The impression of the human face is never quite forgotten."

"Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love."

"Human psychology does not work like that; only logic works like that."

"We are not masters of our own thoughts; our thoughts are the masters of us."

"Jokes are a way of getting around prohibitions without serious consequences."

"One cannot stand constantly in an attitude of antagonism toward the entire world without damage to oneself."

"Patients are rarely grateful to their physicians."

"The individual does call the unconscious irrational, but the study of unconscious psychology reveals that the unconscious is not less rational than the conscious mind."

"Childish features are preserved in the normal human adult."

"Even if the psychoanalytic cure does not achieve all that we wish, we can at least promise one thing: that the therapy is not a search for happiness but a search for clarity."

"The events of a man's life are determined by his unconscious mind."