Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.