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

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

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

Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.