A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

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.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.