Sigmund Freud

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

Where id was, there ego shall be.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

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

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

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

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

No one who, like me, has delved into the deepest depths of the human soul, can fail to realize that the religious phenomenon is not something simple, but a highly complicated structure.

The goal of all life is death.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

The neurotic builds a castle in the air, the psychotic lives in it, and the psychoanalyst collects the rent.

The more the parents are in conflict, the more the children are in conflict.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem most crazy.