The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

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.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.