To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.