None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.