We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.