I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

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

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.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

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 goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.