The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

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.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.