The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

We must make a decision of values.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.