The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

If you can't do it, give up!

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

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]

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.