A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.