One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.