The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.