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.

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

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.

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

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.