But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.