"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual"
"The ego is not master in its own house"
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him"
"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 act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety"
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends"
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires"
"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity"
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them"
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise"
"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me"
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent"
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy"
