The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

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 only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.