I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.