Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

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

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.