Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Man knows much more than he understands.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

My difficulties belong to me!

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Men of genius are admired men of wealth are envied men of power are feared but only men of character are trusted

Meanings are not determined by situations but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.

Man know much more than he understands.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.