Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

The goal of all life is death

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.