What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
