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]

A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!"

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.