"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

"The completely good man is a myth."

"The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously—that is, he invests it with a great deal of affect—though he separates it sharply fr…"

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

"The discovery of the unconscious is the most important step forward in the history of psychology."