“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose 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.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.