Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.