Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.