Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.