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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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 necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.