Not all men are worthy of love.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.