Sigmund Freud

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

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

One is very crazy when in love.

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?'

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

The goal of all life is death.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.