Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

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

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.