Sigmund Freud

"Anxiety is the price we pay for civilization."

"The defense mechanisms are as varied as human ingenuity can devise."

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

"The human being is driven by forces beyond his understanding."

"Repression is the essence of neurosis."

"Our greatest strengths often lie dormant within our deepest fears."

"The superego is that part of ourselves that judges and condemns."

"Jealousy is not based on love but on wounded pride."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men, and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"Paranoia is projection of the repressed onto others."

"The psyche adapts or it perishes."

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

"Every normal person is only normal on average."

"The voice of the intellect is soft but persistent."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

"Obsessions are the mind's way of trying to control the uncontrollable."

"The child is psychologically the father of the man."

"Hysteria is the result of repressed desires and experiences."

"Art and neurosis spring from the same well."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"The primitive mind attributes will and intention to inanimate objects."

"Symbols are the language of the unconscious mind."

"The ego serves three harsh masters: reality, the id, and the superego."

"Childhood memories are the foundation of adult psychology."

"Resistance in therapy reveals what the patient most needs to explore."

"The death instinct is as powerful as the libido."

"Jokes are the safety valves of repression."

"Ambivalence is the normal state of human emotion."

"The family is the true seat of all conflicts."

"Displacement moves emotions from their true object to a safer one."