Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.