I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.