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

Quote by Sigmund Freud

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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or...

We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or...

Where there is love there is no sin.

Where there is love there is no sin.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities...

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities...

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in...

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in...

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

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

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not...

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to...

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to...

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us...

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us...

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them...

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them...

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.