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.

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.

All that matters is love and work.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.