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

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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.