I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.