Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.