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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

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.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.