Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.