"I consider myself to be a man of science, not a philosopher."

"The neurotic is always trying to avoid a catastrophe that never happens."

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

"The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions."

"The aim 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 portio…"