Sigmund Freud

The truth is that we are all savages at heart.

The artist is an introverted non-neurotic.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

The dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish.

The aim of all life is to return to the inorganic state.

The superego is the heir of the Oedipus complex.

The pleasure principle is the primary driving force of the id.

The reality principle is a modification of the pleasure principle.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Where id was, there shall ego be.

Anatomy is destiny.

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

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Just as no apparatus grows more complicated without its number of pieces increasing, and just as no machine is without some residual looseness, so is the same true of the human machine.