“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
“In my beginning is my end.”
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.”
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
“Where id is, there shall ego be.”
“Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.”
“The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.”
“The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Poor man. Poor mankind.”
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good.”
“Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”