“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs – I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.