Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis Quotes

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.