We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.