It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

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

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.