In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?