Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driv….

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called lo….

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than s….

The way out is through the door you came in..

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural sy….

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment..

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensiv….

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon..

A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasing….

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2..

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil..

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy..

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is..

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that..

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience..….

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places a….

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the t….

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these te….

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer..

Few books today are forgivable..