My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

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.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.