Christmas is the alcoholidays

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.