Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

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

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

A strong egoism is a protection.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

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