A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

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.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.