Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
