"A woman should soften but not weaken a man."
- Sigmund Freud
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism."
"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love."
"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may..."
"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
"My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection."
"...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-estimation of the magic of words and the belief that real processes in the external world follow the lin..."
"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."