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

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

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

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.