I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

The goal of all life is death

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.