Love Me Irrationally

When we meet again you may be disappointed on finding that I look different from the lovely picture your tender imagination has painted of me. I don't want you to love me for qualities you assume in me, in fact not for any qualities; you must love me as irrationally as other people love, just because I love you, and you don't have to be ashamed of it.

—Sigmund Freud, Letters, 1884, #33, page 89.

Misquoted in Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality, Substantial Healing of Psychological Problems, page 129, as:

When you come to me, little Princess, love me irrationally.

Besides, this was ten years before Freud began studying psychoanalysis.