Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.