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

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

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.

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.