Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

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.

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