It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Franz Gabriel Alexander, MD, (1891–1964) was a Hungarian American psychoanalyst and physician. He is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Although he studied psychoanalysis under Sigmund Freud, he took his studies further and identified the role that chronic emotional stress plays in causing certain human diseases.