The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.