America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.