The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.