The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.