Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

All that matters is love and work.