We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

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

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The goal of all life is death.

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.