Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery read more

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best

Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve