The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Without love we fall ill.