Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.