An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

All that matters is love and work.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.