In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

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

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.