Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

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

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.