Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.