Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.