The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

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

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.