Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

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

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

The goal of all life is death

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.