Sigmund Freud
“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.”
“Anatomy is destiny.”
“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.”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
“The goal of all life is death.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Anatomy is destiny.”
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”