Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

To be human means to feel inferior.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.