The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!"