I must change his trivial misery back into the noble misery it once was.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you will always find despair.”

Your task is to accept yourself—not to find ways to gain my acceptance.”

Petty thoughts infiltrate his mind like a fungus. They will eventually rot his body.

Freud and Breuer’s Studies on Hysteria,

stated that there was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry.

The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.

He claims that in order to discover the truth, one must first know oneself fully. And to do that, one must remove oneself from one’s customary point of view, even from one’s own century and country—and then examine oneself from a distance!”

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.