To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

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

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.