Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."