- J.R.R. Tolkien: Jack, when you read myths about gods that come to Earth and sacrifice themselves, their stories move you, so long as you read it anywhere but the Bible.
- C. S. Lewis: You are a walking contradiction.
- Sigmund Freud: Well, I'm human. I'm inherently flawed, and I'm deeply damaged. And no doubt, I'm damaging to others.
- Sigmund Freud: I don't know what I think anymore. Perhaps I should start by trying to make sense of reality. Whatever that is. Maybe it is all dream in the end.
- Anna Freud: Children aren't necessarily afraid of war. Instead of running away, they might run toward it with primitive excitment. The real danger isn't that a child might react with shock. The real danger is that the violence of the world might meet the violence inside the child.
- Sigmund Freud: Our deepest cravings are never satisfied, or even identified. In German, it is called "Sehnsucht". Means "longing".
- Commander Gruber: They've never the Goethe prize to a psychoanalyst before.
- Sigmund Freud: Ah, they've never had psychoanalysts in Germany before.
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- Sigmund Freud: But it is too late my friend. Because we've chosen to live our precious lives in the stifling smoke of the burning books and the smoldering embers of our hate. No, there's no, um... There's no escape from the beast, my friend, because our moral certainty is the beast. We are the pestilence. We are the famine and death. We are the apocalypse.