The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual