Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

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

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.