Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.