Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Sigmund FreudA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund FreudWe may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
Sigmund FreudIn matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
Sigmund Freud