» Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
» One is very crazy when in love.
» We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
» Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
» I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
» Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
» Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
» The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
» 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.
» The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.