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.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

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

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

There are no mistakes.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.