the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

They were more free, but they were more alone.

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales, ” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

How did you get me here? (Tory) I have my evil Jedi ways. The Force is strong with this one. (Acheron)

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.