One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

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

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

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

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."