Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.