The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.