“ Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ”

“ Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ”

“ Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ”

“ The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' ”

“ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ”

“ Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. ”

“ What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ”

“ Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ”

“ The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ”

“ Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ”