Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

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