Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.