Wilhelm Stekel Quotes

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Every fear is fear of death.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.