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.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.

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

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.