It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. |
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. |
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. |
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. |
The sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology. |
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father. |
Progress: In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. |
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. |
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. |