We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.