It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.Denis Diderot
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.Tom Stoppard
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.Tom Stoppard
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.Sigmund Freud
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.Sigmund Freud