Sigmund Freud — "The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the in…"

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and enable us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality an…"

"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…"

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent."

"The path to happiness is through the fulfillment of the pleasure principle."

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."