The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen … but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and … if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.