Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.