What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.