Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

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

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.