“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

“Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.”

“Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves”

“عادة ما يبدأ السيكولوجيون المهتمون بمشكلة المثلية بالتفكير عن الرغبة الغريبة لدى رجل يمكنهُ أن يمضى إلى الفراش مع رجل آخر أو لدى امرأة يمكنها ذلك مع امرأة أخرى. إن الغرابة ليست موجودة إلا بالنسبة للواقع المادي المجسّد، أما في حقل الاستيهام فالرجل يلعب دور المرأة والعكس بالعكس.”

“Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.”

“What is moral is self-evident.”

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. ”