Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
The goal of all life is death.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Every man is a poet at heart.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body,...
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe...
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.