Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you. - Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.