What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]