I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.