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

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.