The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.