Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.