The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.