At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.