Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.