At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

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

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

The ego is not master in its own house.