A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.