The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

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

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

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.

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."

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.