Sigmund Freud

"There is a general human tendency to make sacred and holy that which is forbidden and dangerous."

"It is the nature of the artist to overreach the possible."

"Fear is something we have to learn to face in life."

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

"The repressed returns, this is the fundamental truth of psychoanalysis."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each individual anew."

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

"Jealousy is no more than fear of abandonment and of being replaced."

"The only person you must be is yourself."

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

"We are all in some way insane, but the degree varies."

"There's no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Paranoia is the disease of those who can see the truth."

"The self is not given to us, we have to construct it ourselves."

"Mankind will always yearn for certainty, which is precisely what science cannot give."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their actions, their sufferings, and claim of their happiness."

"Time is a precious gift, and we waste it on trivial pursuits."

"The sexual drive does not come after puberty; it begins in childhood."

"Transference is the greatest weapon of the psychoanalytic technique."

"Dreams may be a result of repressed desires seeking expression."

"A person is not just the product of heredity and environment, but also of his choices."

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

"The unconscious mind contains all that is repressed, denied, or hidden from consciousness."

"Mourning is the normal response to loss; melancholy is pathological mourning."

"One is forced to conclude that our so-called civilization is largely responsible for our discontent."

"The defense mechanisms of the ego protect us from unbearable truths."

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term gains."

"The Oedipus complex is the nuclear complex of every neurosis."

"We are never satisfied with our lives because we compare them to an idealized version."

"The superego is the moral conscience that judges our behaviors."