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.

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

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

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.