Sigmund Freud

"The past whispers to us through our dreams and slips."

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

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

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

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

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

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

"Civilization is built on the sublimation of instincts."

"Creative writers are allied to madness and neurosis."

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

"Out of your conflicts all the mightiest forces are born."

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

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."

"Education has to do with the whole human being, not just isolated intellectual achievement."

"Thought is action in rehearsal."

"If youth is wasted on the young, then maturity is wasted on the old."

"The goal of all life is death, yet we fear it more than anything."

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the id and the superego."

"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret."

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has ever seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success."

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man."

"The pleasure principle stands in service to a much larger principle, survival."

"We believe that civilization has been built up, under the pressure of the struggle for survival, by sacrifices in gratification of primitive impulses."

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

"The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of shame."

"What we call happiness in the narrowest sense comes from the sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up."

"The unconscious is the only available means of access to the id."

"Work and love—these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."