It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.