In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

There are no mistakes.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.