When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.