In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

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

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.