Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.