I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

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 necessites.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.