Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
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.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.