Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone cut the history of the world in half.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get without it.

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

Thoughts are free from toll.

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

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

A woman should be an illusion.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

In so far as it seeks to clarify suffering, analysis is well on the way to being a religion.

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

Let one attempt to direct attention to the polar star of one's desires even for a short time, and one will see what a complex mass of problems are set in motion.

Man is more unhappy than he thinks and more wicked than he imagines.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.