Sigmund Freud

I am not a Jew. I am a Viennese. I am a scientist.

The dream is the fulfillment of a wish.

The poet is a man who is able to express the unconscious in a way that is acceptable to the conscious.

The good person is the one who is able to love and to work.

The aim of all life is death.

The human mind is a great storehouse of memories, some of which are conscious and some unconscious.

The dream is the disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish.

The super-ego is the heir of the Oedipus complex.

The unconscious is the part of the mind that is not accessible to consciousness.

The dream is a product of the unconscious mind.

The sexual instinct is the most powerful of all human motives.

Civilization began the first time an angry man cast a word instead of a rock.

The goal of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id.

No one who, like me, has delved into the deepest depths of the human psyche, can ever again be happy with the superficiality of everyday life.

The neurotic builds a fantasy castle, the normal man lives in a real house.

Man is a wolf to man.

The analyst must be like a mirror, reflecting nothing but what is shown to him.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

The ego is ultimately derived from bodily sensations, chiefly from those springing from the surface of the body.

The dream is a compromise between the demands of the repressed unconscious and the censorship of the conscious mind.