What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.