A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.