Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

One is very crazy when in love.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.