All that matters is love and work.

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.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

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

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.