One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

The madman is a dreamer awake

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.