I consider it downright immoral to shut one's eyes to the truth about oneself

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think

Wisdom or oblivion- take your choice. From that warfare there is no release

There is no such thing as a baby- only a baby and a mother

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility

Enjoyment is always bound up with gratitude; if this gratitude is deeply felt it includes the wish to return goodness received and is thus the basis of generosity

C.G. Jung

Jacques Lacan

W.R.Bion

D.W. Winnicott

Freud

Melanie Klein

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
 

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
 

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
 

If there is sin against life, it consistsÉ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
 

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
 

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
 

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
 

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
 

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
 

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
 

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

 

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
 

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
 

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
 

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
 

Once you label me you negate me.
 

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
 

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
 

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
 

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
 

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
 

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Hell is other people.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

To lead people walk behind them.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.