Sigmund Freud

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The creative power of the artist is a sublimation of his sexual instincts.

The truth is that we are all born with a certain amount of energy, and that energy is used up in the course of our lives.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

The goal of life is to love, and to be loved.

The human being is an animal that has to live in a world that is not made for it.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

The individual's development is a product of the interaction between his innate predispositions and his environment.

The future of an illusion is that it will be replaced by another illusion.

The ego is the organized portion of the id.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious.

The more the parents are in love, the more the child is secure.

From the most innocent of dreams, one can extract the most profound truths.

The neurotic is a person who has not been able to resolve the Oedipus complex.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and good sense.

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

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

The human being is a wolf to man.