All that matters is love and work.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

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.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.