Sigmund Freud

"In the psychoanalytic situation, the analyst is a blank slate onto which the patient projects their desires."

"Our task is not to produce converts, but to widen people's consciousness."

"Without analysis I would never have known myself."

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

"It was my good fortune to have filial piety impressed upon me at an early age."

"It is not enough to love. We must hate as well."

"Resistance is the strongest proof of the existence of the unconscious."

"The mind is the locus of our conflicts as well as our creativity."

"In our unconscious there is a never-ceasing phantasy, and there alone can we find the wishes and wishes-fulfillments which alone make life worth living."

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."

"What do women want? This is the great question that has never been answered."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"One must learn to work. No class can be anything, if it has not learned to work."

"The psychoanalytic revolution did not occur because the world suddenly became better or worse, but because the world suddenly became visible."

"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

"Acting provides the superficial release, not the deep cure."

"The transition from childhood to adulthood is the greatest feat of humanity."

"Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our feelings."

"To be loved is not enough. One must be understood."

"Memory serves us best when we suppress half of what we know."

"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; I have only made it scientific."

"Sexual symbolism appears in all cultures, ancient and modern."

"Neuroses are not the only manifestation of the clash between the individual and civilization."

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctuary of the soul."

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes it necessary."

"Every psychological phenomenon originates in the body."

"It has been my experience that if you do not know your own mind, someone else will."

"He that touches pitch will be defiled."

"The goal of analysis is not to make the patient feel better but to make him more honest."

"Life has always seemed to me like a beautiful woman who walks in and out of my life, leaving the smell of her perfume as the only proof she ever visited."