I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.