Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.