There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.