An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

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