Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar.

The Ego Represents What We Call Reason And Sanity, In Contrast To The Id Which Contains The Passions.

Just As No One Can Be Forced Into Belief, So No One Can Be Forced Into Unbelief.

I Had The Greatest Respect For The Authorities Of My Day--until I Studied Things For Myself, And Came To My Own Conclusions.

It Is No Wonder If, Under The Pressure Of These Possibilities Of Suffering, Men Are Accustomed To Moderate Their Claims To Happiness - Just As The Pleasure Principle Itself, Indeed, Under The Influence Of The External World, Changed Into The More Modest Reality Principle -, If A Man Thinks Himself Happy Merely To Have Escaped Unhappiness Or To Have Survived His Suffering, And If In General The Task Of Avoiding Suffering Pushes That Of Obtaining Pleasure Into The Background.

I Regard Myself As One Of The Most Dangerous Enemies Of Religion