No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

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.

Christmas is the alcoholidays