Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

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

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.