The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Not all men are worthy of love.