The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

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