Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.