Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker.

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.