Sigmund Freud

"We are biological beings shaped by evolutionary forces."

"In a hierarchy, power and responsibility flow both ways."

"To understand religion, we must understand the human need for protection and meaning."

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

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"The unconscious is the only available means of reaching deep emotional truths."

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

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

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, is: what does woman want?"

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

"It is impossible to work on the mind without harming the body."

"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 person's own style is part of their thinking."

"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence."

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed."

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

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious."

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

"The only way out is through."

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

"Maturity is the ability to delay gratification."

"The ego is constantly adapting to reality and trying to maintain equilibrium."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"Civilization and its discontents are inseparable."

"The first human being who hurled a curse instead of a weapon was the founder of civilization."

"Slips of the tongue are revelations of what lies beneath."

"The mind of man has perforce first to struggle with nature before it can struggle with ideas."

"Religious ideas have sprung from man's need to make his helplessness tolerable."

"Transference is when the patient falls in love with the analysis instead of the analyst."