Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

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.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.