1. “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
2. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”
3. “Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
4. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief”.”
5. “The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
6. “Opposition is not necessarily enmity, it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
7. “Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy.”
8. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
9. “The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
10. “It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
11. “The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
12. “People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
13. “Thought is action in rehearsal.”
14. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
15. “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
