Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.